Making Money In Developing Countries
Can you name the top* 10 most commonly used languages without looking below? Here they are:
1. Mandarin Chinese (1.12 billion)
2. English (480 million)
3. Spanish (320 million)
4. Russian (285 million)
5. French (265 million)
6. Hindi/Urdu (250 million)
7. Arabic (221 million)
8. Portuguese (188 million)
9. Bengali (185 million)
10. Japanese (133 million)
*Total number of native and secondary speakers of top languages.
Many are so obsessed with domain statistics such as the Google Adword Keyword Tool (“GAKT”), that they are blinded to other opportunities.
Superpremium keywords are still available to be handregged in high-usage languages such as Bengali and Tamil. When these 100 million plus speakers begin using the Internet en masse it will be worth tens of thousands to own a premium name.
The Google Adword Keyword stats will eventually catch up in these future years and you will once again have to look in the mirror and ask, did I follow everyone else in only buying Japanese, Russian and Chinese IDNs or did I monopolize my own corner of the market and plant a seed in a place where others weren’t even looking.
In rereading the Dave Wrixon interview, his contrarian approach should be instructive. Wrixon cast a wide net, and explained: “We maintain significant holdings in Chinese (Simplied and Traditional), Japanese, Russian, Arabic, Farsi, Urdu, Hindi, Thai, Bengali, Tamil, Kannada, Telugu, Punjabi, Gujarati, and Azeri.”
Population decline of 25% expected in japan by 2040-2050
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@ Jeff – Interesting stat, thanks for posting.
france and japan developing countries ? :p
@Leon – Of course not. What I was saying was that though developed countries like France and Japan have nearly all top domains in their languages taken, there are bargains in developing countries like India with large populations and many keywords available to hand-register.
I want to know the 25 developing countries and their currencies