What's the next Domain rush?

[rkbdomain]

The next big thing in China is already underway. It domain names in Chinese Characters, which is heavily supported by the Chinese government, but has been interminably delayed by Microsoft through their reluctance to roll out a supportive browser and ICANN that has done everything possible to interminably delay putting ASCII character strings into the root, simply because they decode to Chinese Characters. Somebody made up a cock and bull story about it crashing the Internet, so we had to wait a couple of year whilst they dreamt up to a test to prove that one set of ASCII characters behave in exactly the same way as another set of ASCII characters. However, their ruses for delay are now just about exhausted.

Do Microsoft and ICANN have any business reasons to try to delay the introduction of Chinese character domains, or is it just standard incompetence?

 

[Rubber Duck]

Microsoft definitely doesn't. They now understand that they have to win the browser wars, and they are not going to do that with IE6. Actually IE6 is very rapidly slipping into the history books now.

ICANN has more or less set itself a June Deadline for getting its policy in place. The Hype will start very soon, which will start to kick things into action, as the names already exist within the dot Com and dot CN registeries, all that is missing is the ability to add TLD extensions that are in Chinese Characters, which may or may not be aliased to existing ASCII extensions.

Once big business starts to publicise these Chinese Character domains, most other forms of domains in China initially and very quickly through most of Asia, North Africa and Eastern Europe will be pushed to the margins.

 

[Vutos]

I think the next hype will be CVCV .net

 

[Rubber Duck]

I think the next hype will be CVCV .net

It is going to be difficult to maintain the Hype, unless you can get the Soup Kitchen fitted with Wifi.

 

[Namebrander]

premium letter vcvcv.com are down to around 500 now out of 11000 possible domains

seems about 700 have been bought in the last week or so

 

[tekz999]

CVCV+S LLLLL.coms are the best. Not only they are CVCV (highest value), but "s" is a premium letter, a consonant, AND it can be a plural!

 

[SDX]

The next still UNDER-respected craze is for 2 character (LN.COM and NL.COM) domains! k:

 

[staffjam]

SDX - i think you may have something there. The offers i've been receiving on the 2 i own have started to get quite serious.

 

[DomainMagnate]

premium letter vcvcv.com are down to around 500 now out of 11000 possible domains

seems about 700 have been bought in the last week or so

that's interesting :cheesy:

 

[SDX]

SDX - i think you may have something there. The offers i've been receiving on the 2 i own have started to get quite serious.

Nice! k:

 

[bgmv]

Premium (which depends on the language of the country) LLL.ccTLD I think are quite valuable. Most LLL.ch have been bought (Switzerland) and I recon the rest will be bought out soon. Any countries with a good GDP per capita and OK gini coefficient (so wealth isn't too concentrated) will have a good market for LLL.ccTLD so a buyout of these will be profitable. I'm spending some spare cash getting some good ones.

I defintiley agree with this. It seems like the most logical alternative to a LLL.com for a foregin business. Have all the LLL.de, .ch, .es, .fr soldout? If not where can I generate a list.

 

[tekz999]

CVCV+S gafes.com is recently sold at tdnam for $671!

 

[ftaylor]

All of you can check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture

For similarities in numbers and Chinese meanings. This will tell you why you should buy 99886.com and not 4444.com

 

[SDX]

CVCV+S gafes.com is recently sold at tdnam for $671!

Nice!

 

[ksinclair]

> 000 Wrote:
> ... Cash will migrate to non-domain investments and to traffic names offered
> below 2006-2007 prices. Vultures are overhead.

I wish I could be a vulture. But I think you have to have some money first.

 

[Onward]

CVCV+S gafes.com is recently sold at tdnam for $671!

This is true...I recently closed a 5k deal for one....and have been stocking up ever since.

 

[MAllie]

All of you can check out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_in_Chinese_culture

For similarities in numbers and Chinese meanings. This will tell you why you should buy 99886.com and not 4444.com

Yes, that was an interesting article, Finbarr. I'd heard about the American attitude to the 13th floor before, but wasn't sure if it was a myth or not. Of course, Wikipedia isn't always right, so is it?

Interestingly, in Ireland all the telephone numbers of the Garda (police) stations begin with 666, as does the telephone number of Childline.

 

[DNWizardX9]

IDN is the next big thing

 

[SDX]

IDN is the next big thing

I thought they were a while ago...:smilewinkgrin:

 

[bwhhisc]

IDN is the next big thing

Finally...seems it is really going to happen after all these years.

For those that are interested Google "ICANN Budget 2009" and see how your reg fees will help pay the $14,000,000 for idn.idn rollout and new gTLDs to support them next year.