Interesting blog post about JP IDNs

[nikel]

http://www.circleid.com/posts/89228_...n_name_market/

[mj]

Japanese have developed an allergy to domains because of their terrible experiences in the past.

Interesting thought...

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[touchring]

nice, but if vs didn't screw up, how would we registered all those nice names?

if vs didn't screw up, how did RS and FS find themselves missed out on the biggest domain opportunity since 1996?

[261275]

Originally Posted by mj

Interesting thought...

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Yeah, very objective

Personal Profile
Darshaun Nadeau is the founder and former CEO of Solis, a Japanese corporation focused on domain registration and related management services. Darshaun founded Solis in 2001 with a partner and grew the company to an efficient 10 employee team by the time it was acquired by a publicly traded Japanese corporation, GMO Internet, Inc. in July of 2005.

Darshaun came to Japan in 1998 to finish his last year of college at Kyoto University of Foreign Studies. After finishing in 1999, Darshaun took his first job at an internet based recruiting-advertisement start-up in Tokyo where he worked for 7 months. After leaving the recruiting firm he founded his own job-information portal in 2000, later to sell his ownership stake in the latter half 2000.

Darshaun has received internet, print and television media coverage.
Darshaun established contracts for Solis in over 30 countries, at which times he received press release media coverage locally in more than 10 local languages.

http://www.ea-tokyo.com/seminars/spe...haunNadeau.php

For the record, Alpha found that about him.

[clipper]

Given the natural aversions of the native population, I'll be happy to take them off your hands for, say, $10-25 apiece.

[sarcle]

Funny just sold a not to impressive IDN domain to a Japanese end user. The sale is posted in the sales forum.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by sarcle

Funny just sold a not to impressive IDN domain to a Japanese end user. The sale is posted in the sales forum.

Congrats, that's $8k bonus - without sacrificing any portfolio value. lol

What was weird is that the dot jp was available in the first place for registration, but they chose to buy the dot com from you for $8k.

This proves that dot com is at least not inferior to dot jp among japanese end users.

[Pinkerton]

Originally Posted by touchring

Congrats, that's $8k bonus - without sacrificing any portfolio value. lol

What was weird is that the dot jp was available in the first place for registration, but they chose to buy the dot com from you for $8k.

This proves that dot com is at least not inferior to dot jp among japanese end users.

or the guy that works for the corporation that bought the domain lost his job ;P

[Prodigy]

Originally Posted by touchring

Congrats, that's $8k bonus - without sacrificing any portfolio value. lol

What was weird is that the dot jp was available in the first place for registration, but they chose to buy the dot com from you for $8k.

This proves that dot com is at least not inferior to dot jp among japanese end users.

Sorry Touch but one sale doesnt represent much.

You need to go (or live) in Tokyo to understand how dominant the .jp extension is.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Prodigy

Sorry Touch but one sale doesnt represent much.

You need to go (or live) in Tokyo to understand how dominant the .jp extension is.

Do you mean .co.jp?

Yes, one example of course doesn't mean much, that's why i said dot com is at least not inferior to dot jp.

Btw, didn't Alpha sell another dot com to an end user a few months ago?