.US Goes Over 1 Million Registrations

[Rubber Duck]

If nothing else, .US has been out there in usage for several years and will be around in future as we know of it....!

IDNs, sure they'd be the next *big* thing but by all accounts they're STILL work in progress with so many technical, security, administrative, and political issues to be addressed that no one can say for sure ultimately in what shape and form they'd eventually have utility and (thus) value; IDN.com, IDN.ccTLD, IDN.IDN or something else! One just need to keep in mind the recent Chinese move on implementing their own IDN structure under their ccTLD, as one practical example of this very fluid and uncertain situation. IMO, all these unknowns make IDNs a highly highly speculative and risky ventures.

Well, actually you are just totally wrong. If you are going to get into IDN you need to be seriously thinking about the matter now as it is already very late indeed. My situation is that I have sold $50K worth already, which because most of registration were either new reg or drops that represents my entire investment to date, even though I have only sold a tiny percentage of my valued domains.

Dot US is almost certainly a sound investment but it ain't going to make you mega bucks.

IDN dot coms will become IDN.IDN. If you think you are going to nip in later when some different form of IDN emerges then you are going to have dipped out simply because you haven't done your homework. Yes there will be ccTLD version just as their are with ASCII, but because these domains are already targeted by language/script these Geographical pointers will be of little consequence. The bulk of the registrations will be dot coms and the extension will have dozen if not hundreds of local representations but the latin dot com extension will be valid and all these domains will be as integral part of the dot com registry as business.com or sex.com.

Obstacles to overcome? Well just Microsoft really. We are just waiting for them to release EI 7.0!

 

[mattbodis]

.us > .eu