closed A few Chinese & Japanese .co IDNs for appraisal and other ideas 法.co

[Mr Bridger]

Sold a long-forgotten-about domain a couple of weeks back and was wondering what to do with some of the proceeds, then noticed that the .co people were making Asian IDNs available as of last night. Had a sniff around and after a some caffeine & nicotine, I ended up with this lot:

Country	IDN	Word	GAKT
China	法	Law	16,600,000
Japan	アニメ	Anime	9,140,000
Japan	漫画	Manga	9,140,000
Japan	スポーツ	Sport(s)	5,000,000
China	工作	Job/work	4,090,000
Japan	住å®	Housing	4,090,000
Japan	ビジネス	Business	3,350,000
China	钱	Money	2,740,000
China	业务	Business/profession	2,240,000
China	æ— é¦†	Hotel	2,240,000
China	保	Insurance	2,240,000
Japan	ローン	Loan	1,500,000
Japan	かわいい	Kawaai/cute	1,500,000
China	消息	News	1,000,000
China	食物	Food	1,000,000
Japan	ダイヤモンド	Diamond	1,000,000
China	域	Domain	823,000
Japan	コンピュータ	Computer	823,000
Japan	日付	Dating	673,000
China	门票	Tickets	550,000
China	住房	Housing	550,000
Japan	お金	Money	550,000
Japan	ジョブ	Job	450,000
China	放假	Holiday	450,000
China	股市	Stock market	368,000
China	约会	Engagement/appointment	368,000
Japan	カジノ	Casino	201,000
China	赌博	Gambling	135,000
Japan	買物	Shopping	135,000
China	首飾	Jewellery/ornaments	135,000
Japan	衣類	Clothing/garments	110,000
China	博彩	Gaming/lottery	90,500
China	抵押	Mortgage	90,500
China	嬉	Play/amusement	49,500
Japan	賭け	Betting/gambling	49,500
China	买东西	Shopping	8,100
China	年代測定	Dating	3,600
China	打折	Discount	1,300

Now wondering how to go about getting some use from them, so any suggestions welcome.

Cheers,

Mr B.

 

[Biggie]

make sites, cuz without type-in traffic i don't see value

 

[Mr Bridger]

Yeah, was thinking along a similar line. Will have to have a word with a couple of friends who are more conversant in those languages. Any thoughts as to how I'd go about knocking something up for each domain, i.e. just setting up optimised parking pages or creating something more bespoke for each one?

 

[Biggie]

i wouldn't have regged any idn's in .co


but since you did, best to park em' till you decide what to do


who knows, maybe you'll get a few hits

 

[katherine]

Search volume is not the measure of domain value.
IDNs are very speculative and the TLD isn't first-grade really. Can't remember one single reported sale in .co for an IDN domain, at least in Asian charset.

 

[Mr Bridger]

Biggie - if I hadn't been able to get them at a reasonable discount, then I'd have only bought about half a dozen at most. Nescafé has a lot to answer for in this instance :smilewinkgrin:

Katherine - rather than typing them in to the form on here, I did a bit of copypasta from my spreadsheet and the GAKT score was one of several columns I'd been using to try and determine some kind of value for each name. So yeah, I won't be using that as the sole factor for looking at things. Guess in the end, it's the same as everything else - things are only worth what someone is willing to pay for them, rather than what the seller thinks they're worth.

Am still at the bottom end of the learning curve...

 

[dillpupp]

Search volume is not the measure of domain value.
IDNs are very speculative and the TLD isn't first-grade really. Can't remember one single reported sale in .co for an IDN domain, at least in Asian charset.

I've had some great sales with IDN over the years and still have a couple hundred com's and net's with traffic and revenue, so I'll stick up for them a bit. The reason there hasn't been a reported Asian IDN .co sale is because....they just launched April 15th, hence Mr. Bridger's list.

.CO is obviously no .com, but I do think it has some potential in Japan seeing as how .co.jp is widespread, typing 'co' is a bit more natural. There will probably be no big traffic or revenue on them, but you're list is mostly cream of the crop. A random offer is not out of the question, and that's what we're all in it for! If you can afford to just hang on and wait, I wouldn't be surprised if you sold one for a decent amount.

I wasn't prepared for the launch and only went for 4 Asian IDN.co domains, and only got 1, but I believe I ended up with *the* one. It's gotten 8 hits. Probably other domainers, we'll see if it keeps up.

 

[tt9000]

I understand the language of Chinese and Japanese, IDN domains are not popular at all in either China or Japan. Somehow co could be a hack for .co.jp ,but the potentials does not seems to be high at the moment. And for Mainland China, people prefer com or cn, and co has not been recognized at all at the moment.

I personal prefer 打折.co 食物.co, and the rest of them I don't think they even worth the reg fee. Anyway, good luck to you.

P.S In my personal opinion, please do not reg Hiragana or Katakana for Japanese IDN, they don't worth a penny.