italiandragon said:
yes Munchen in Italian is "Monaco di Baviera" not just Monaco, to difference it from Monaco ( Montecarlo ).
I was surprised to see my Roma converted in Rome or Firenze in Florence, or Venezia in Venice.....and so on ... it`s just normal, English rules, has the power to convert other country`s names or other cities`s names while for example, in Italian Chigago is still Chigago, Los Angles is still Los Angeles and so on.
Yes, but which is a locally based business going to want:
http://www.google.com/trends?q=Roma,+Rome
And the picture doesn't change when you move to local scripts.
Which is worth more a local consentration of customers or people browsing out of curiosity from half-way around the globe. Sure if you can convert that traffic into flights and hotels then fine, but my guess is the local traffic is actually the more valuable.
Malta.com is a fine name, because that is how the locals spell it as well as the English Visitors. Given the choice between this and say Cairo in Arabic, however, I know which I would go for and which has the greatest commercial potential.
Yes, the English have been incredibly arrrogant when it comes to changing the names of places, but history has show that none of these places ever adopt the English Version long-term and that the English eventually revert to the local version. I mean how often do you hear Lyons being called Lions these days. Bombay is falling into disuse. Peking, where is that?
financialtraffic said:
When you pick stocks do you pick all of those which are low priced, just because they are low priced and not yet discovered? You may think you're getting a bargain but you're really getting a lot less for a whole lot more risk when you compare it up to a company that is already well established and churning some good cash.
The same applies when comparing IDNs to .COMs.
You buy things based on both their immediate potential for return and also their long-term potential for return.
You are assuming a great deal of risk whether your like to think so or not. And to some level, we all are assuming some risk. But your model is even more dependent on "ifs" and "whens". If you're so completely positive about your position in IDNs then I would say you're making a mistake. I fail to be completely devoted to any one investment method.
It is not so much about being cheap as ROI. I have turned out a couple of domains his year at $10K each, as well as a whole pile at four figure sums. Both of these where acquired in the previous six months for only $8. Work out the ROI for yourself, it disappears off the chart compared with what people are making in ASCII domains.
In most situations, risk is proportional to reward, but not always. If you have knowledge that enables you to jump in earlier than the rest of the field, who either don't have those facts or are unable to interpret them properly, that picture would be greatly distorted.
I started life in domaining picking up drops, but I pulled out because the rewards were no longer commensurate with the risk. I am not saying you cannot make money in ASCII, but I wouldn't say that it isn't low risk. When you look at the rewards you are making, compared with IDN, I would suggest that at this moment in time, it is comparatively very risky indeed.
Unfortunately, you are not currently getting a full picture of what is going on here. Because of the resistance to IDN, it was necessary to set up entirely new venues, which is where most of the action is going down. Just because it is not happening at DNFs, it doesn't mean that is not happening. I personally would love to see a much more vibrant market on this Forum, but the bottom line is, that at the moment most of the action is going on elsewhere.
(_Y_)Man said:
only thing i dont like about IDNs (i have a dozen or so) is I lose track of the meanings of each, gets a little annoying to have to go back and check the definition and then have someone tell you thats its wrong.
Well if you have thousands, the answer is to keep the translation in a database. I am sure most professional domainers run some kind of separate database of their own anyway.
Yes, some Chinese IDNers are clearly demonstrating that being Chinese is an advantage, but not as big an advantage as being first!
Frankly, I am baffled at why so many are put off by foriegn languages as most of the stuff that comes up for appraisal on here closely resembles Double Dutch anyway.
