Thank you for this excellent postBoost prospects??
You need to check out the public document which is the "ICANN 2009 budget" and just go throught line items for IDN expenditures. As we hear too often "follow the money". Once you add in all the budgets for the various international registraries, combined with ICANN support over full rollouts of IDNs (idn.idn to join idn.com, idn.net, idn.cn, idn.jp etc) the total expenditures will easily exceed 100 million dollars.
This project has been 10 years in the making, and full implementation of idn.idn will begin sometime in 2009. Still plenty of good opportunities to acquire names at great prices on the various IDN forums. Many think of IDN at this stage being a parallel to "ASCII" names back in 1997-1998. Many expect that history will again repeat itself again, only this time around instead of latin domain names it will be with "international domain names". Many strong sales over the last year at x,xxx, xx,xxx and xxx,xxx to bear out this trend.
More posts like yours will indeed enhance the reputation of IDN resellers
It is with regret that I note that the OP has not amended the false information regarding the ASX in the original post