Interesting parallels from 1999?

[mj]

So, almost 10 years back, this is what they thought of ccTLDs...

(CNN) -- Dot com may be the Fifth Avenue of Internet addresses, but an estimated 2 million Web sites have set up shop at what amounts to East 101st Street -- a country-code domain name.

Country domain names such as .uk and .fr confer a regional identity or presence that appeals to companies or agencies, and some are cheaper to register than the standard-bearers of .com, .org and their brethren.

http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/computin.../domain.names/


How long til we see a similar article about IDNs in CNN? Does that mean we can then start the 10 year timer?

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[Rubber Duck]

Not really. You cannot draw parallels. Back then nobody really understood the value of domains. Rick might have been getting it but that was about it. Google was barely established. The concept of SEO hardly existed at all. And besides most of the country codes meant jack shit in the countries they were supposed to represent.

As for IDN, traffic may not be huge but it is there and we have seen a hard correlation with browser support and public awareness. As soon as ICANNs global awareness campaign kicks in just ahead of the approval of the ccTLD implementation plan in November, the race will be on for market share. Verisign has yet to come out of the closet, but there will come a moment when they have to make their move. It is either that or roll over and die along with much of the rest of Corporate America.

[Gee]

it was expected that IDNs would fly in 2-5 years maximum not 10 years! and this is what we all were talking about in the old idnforums and many people joined the market due to the heated discussions over there...

Now the optimism is gone and there are more pessimistic views concerning the progress of IDN market and even the ASCII domains..... and we now see big players like adam dicker dropping his 5000 IDNs which made the top stories everywhere one day!

I don't expect to see a bubble in IDN sales in the future and I am not able to put a time frame of the first million dollar sale but the thing that is sure is that IDNs will continuously increase in value but in a slow motion than expected

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by Gee

and we now see big players like adam dicker dropping his 5000 IDNs which made the top stories everywhere one day!

Where did you read this? He told me a few months back he was mainly just dropping any IDNs that got 0 traffic. I asked him about posting his drop list on DNF for members to buy or grab any they liked. Never happened, so I guess he didn't feel like taking the time.

[mj]

Originally Posted by bwhhisc

Where did you read this? He told me a few months back he was mainly just dropping any IDNs that got 0 traffic. I asked him about posting his drop list on DNF for members to buy or grab any they liked. Never happened, so I guess he didn't feel like taking the time.

Ah, thanks for the info. I just picked up one of his drops that I had been watching for a while.

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[mj]

Originally Posted by Gee

I am not able to put a time frame of the first million dollar sale

It will happen when some rich Arab surfs to http://اللؤلؤة.com

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[Rubber Duck]

Actually, all it will take is a general realisation that US Economy is not the be and end all of everything.

By my estimation that cannot be more than 6 months away.

You cannot get away with reporting INFLATION as GROWTH forever, without some bright eyed economist seeing the flaw in the logic.

Then again, perhaps the objective was only ever to get past November.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Actually, all it will take is a general realisation that US Economy is not the be and end all of everything.
By my estimation that cannot be more than 6 months away.
You cannot get away with reporting INFLATION as GROWTH forever, without some bright eyed economist seeing the flaw in the logic.
Then again, perhaps the objective was only ever to get past November.

DCG lives in Canada.

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Actually, all it will take is a general realisation that US Economy is not the be and end all of everything.

By my estimation that cannot be more than 6 months away.

You cannot get away with reporting INFLATION as GROWTH forever, without some bright eyed economist seeing the flaw in the logic.

Then again, perhaps the objective was only ever to get past November.

Election years are always interesting, but that will come and go. The economy is a worldwide problem, price increases at the wholesale level are pretty much on the rise now worldwide, passing down to consumers at the retail level.

The cost of moving goods all over the world has skyrocketed with increased shipping costs from port to port, doubling of fuel, hiked insurance, double cost for fuel to truck from port to distribution centers. Time for the entire world, not just the US to adjust to the "new" economy.

[Lidador]

Sell in May and go away. From Sep-Nov to Jan any year you always get better reports. It's January next year that scares me...