closed .tv and .tv ( Japanese IDNs )

[alex_d]

Hi guys and gals,

After much debating with whether of not I should reg these two Japanese .tv IDNs, and went and took the plunge.

ブログ.tv ( Blog )
Overture Japan Results - 925,701
Overture US Results - 774
Google.co.jp Results - 28,600,000
Yahoo.co.jp Results - 338,000,000


インターネット.tv ( Internet )
Overture Japan Results - 297,588
Overture US Results - 111
Google.co.jp Results - 36,100,000
Yahoo.co.jp Results - 190,000,000


Now I know that some will probably say the .tv domain will not be any good for these domains, but seeing as the .com, .net and .jp were all taken, was it worth regging these ones ?? I mean, if blog.tv or internet.tv were available in English for Reg Fee, would anyone reg these ?? I think they would.

I did a little searching as well regarding the .tv extension for Japan, and was very suprised at the number of sites who have a .tv domain name. If you do a search on yahoo.co.jp for the term ".tv", you will see there are many many sites from Japan using the .tv extension, which gives me the impression that it might be an excepted domain extension to the Japanese.

Anyway, I would really appreciate any opinions and thoughts on these two.

Thanks for your time.

Alex