does dot net traffic bleed over to dot com on idn?

[mj]

Well, many people believe that it does, and I say that this is looking at the situation through the lens of the american market.

I have an IDN.net that gets 40-75 type-ins per day. I registered the dot com as well to test it, and the dot com only got 1-2 type-ins per day.

Yes, I dropped the dot com after a few days and lost 20 cents. The dot net has earned $14 in one month since registration.

The point is that conventional wisdom for the american market does not apply to all markets in the world.

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[phio]

I've been wondering that myself. Transliterations of popular websites will get some hits. Typing without switching the IME will also get some.

Also, I wonder about latins and accent marks. Most latins type with their own accents, but when it comes to the urls, it's a question.

Right now my targets domains for spain .es IDNs don't get much traffic, and I was puzzling as to why

[idn]

Originally Posted by mj

Well, many people believe that it does, and I say that this is looking at the situation through the lens of the american market.

I have an IDN.net that gets 40-75 type-ins per day. I registered the dot com as well to test it, and the dot com only got 1-2 type-ins per day.

Yes, I dropped the dot com after a few days and lost 20 cents. The dot net has earned $14 in one month since registration.

The point is that conventional wisdom for the american market does not apply to all markets in the world.

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For Russian and Arabic I can say that I owned the .com and .net in many cases, each and every time the .com had significant more traffic than the .net. I actually have not found a country that prefers that .net. The country/language may value the .net more than the west, but still not type it in more than the .com.

My best guess is that it is acsii spill over.

IMO

[yanni]

I'll go with the ascii spill-over theory. If the .net is a translit from an ascii site, it will certainly get more traffic than the .com

I have a couple of Russians that act this way, plus what I've gathered from others when each of us own either one.

[mj]

I will give Finnish as an example.

Dot net is preferred over dot com in many cases because of the Finnish pronunciation of the domain name as a whole, as well as the perceived role of the domain's extension. The same goes for dot org, it can be preferred over com or net, depending on the usage.

For example, hämäläinen.net. Hämäläinen is a surname, and Finnish people would in most cases rather have their surname domain on a dot net than a dot com. In some cases, though, the dot com just sounds better.

On the other hand, a product such as a helmet - "kypärä.com" - they prefer the dot com over the dot net.

There have been many cases where native Finns registered the dot net in 1998 or so and didn't register the dot com until many years later. Same goes for IDN. I have picked up Finnish IDN.coms, where the dot net was already taken by native Finns a couple years earlier.

But the domain I was referring to in this thread is czech.

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[michael]

anekdotov.net



With such a logo and with almost 31 000 visits a day I wonder about traffic on анекдотов.net

[Rubber Duck]

I am getting very substantial spill over from ASCII.net onto cyrillic.com if that answers your question to the tune of nearly a thousand clicks a month on a single domain.

I never cease to be amazed at the theories people conjure up!

[mj]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I am getting very substantial spill over from ASCII.net onto cyrillic.com if that answers your question to the tune of nearly a thousand clicks a month on a single domain.

I never cease to be amazed at the theories people conjure up!

With Russian, I can believe it, because of Opera's defaulting to dot com when you type a keyword and hit enter.

What I would be really interested in is seeing the level of direct traffic to that domain after you filter out all the Opera browsers.

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[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by mj

With Russian, I can believe it, because of Opera's defaulting to dot com when you type a keyword and hit enter.

What I would be really interested in is seeing the level of direct traffic to that domain after you filter out all the Opera browsers.

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Well, I am not.

For me that is just another wild theory.

It is like saying that all Latin Language speakers for those scripts that have accents are genetically determined to type-in, whilst the genes of those that use different scripts prevent them behaving similarly.

I have a theory. Those that have an IDN supporting browser are more likely to get their queries resolved than those that do not. Bit off the wall, but what do you think?

[yanni]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I am getting very substantial spill over from ASCII.net onto cyrillic.com if that answers your question to the tune of nearly a thousand clicks a month on a single domain.

Do you also have the Cyrillic.net on that one to compare traffic level difference?