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The Truth.. about Monetizing IDNs
by GM on Jan.13, 2010, under News
IDN demystified: Continuing the Mythbusting series from here.
Monetizing an IDN if you are not familiar with the language & culture can be an obstacle, but it doesn’t have to be.
If full scale development is your goal, then partnering with an existing business in that country makes a lot of sense.. you provide the name & traffic,
Unmasking… the “Snow’s”
by GM on Dec.09, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: This blog didn’t set out to be a daily blog like so many other blogs out there in blogville. The posting may be infrequent, but in terms of delivering the goods, I aim to satisfy, and always true to the spirit of demystifying the world of IDN.
This is hopefully the first of a few articles
The Perfect Punycode Converter? We think so.
by GM on Nov.24, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: It’s not often you get a free lunch, usually there’s a catch. But not with this.
Ever since I acquired IDNTools, there’s been a ton of things I wanted to do with it – relocate it to a fast server, give it a new skin, improve the toolset (particularly the IDN droplist)..
The Truth.. about language skills
by GM on Nov.16, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: IDNs? Nah not for me, I wouldn’t even know how to type one..
Continuing the Mythbusting series from here..
I’ve lost count how many times I have heard folks say that they can’t get in to IDN because they don’t know the language
The Truth about Traffic
by GM on Oct.13, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: I know people who are making $xxx a month parking a single IDN. And it won’t surprise you to hear that the type of quality needed to bring in that kind of traffic is exceptional.
Whether you subscribe to the IDN business case or not, it is kind of irrelevant – because there seems to be…
Portfolio Management and Security 101
by GM on Aug.14, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: Not a week goes by when there isn’t a story about a domain theft, it’s becoming an all too familiar sight, and just this week a colleague of mine lost many domains, some ascii, some IDN…
IDN .jp drop catching?
by GM on Jul.31, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: I have been drop catching IDN .Jps for over 3 years now, and have amassed some awesome domains.
Drop catching in .jp has received very little coverage, but actually all the information is out there in the public domain.
Like all ccTLDs, there is no zone file, but I have a private database containing tens of thousands..
IDN Validation & Renewals 1/2
by GM on Jul.23, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: It’s been almost a month since I last wrote anything here. I’d like to say I’ve busy doing non-domain things, but alas… I’ve been thinking about renewals; which brings me nicely onto this post topic…
Japan Deep-dive
by GM on Jun.21, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: Japanese language domains make up the bulk of my IDN portfolio, and there’s a very good reason why this is, but before we get into that, lets take a quick look at the country itself…
Russia Deep-Dive 2/2: Two Hundred and Sixteen Thousand reasons why this makes sense
by GM on Jun.01, 2009, under News
IDN demystified: As I mentioned on my Agenda post, I’ve been involved with a number of un-reported big ticket IDN deals over the last few years.
Sometimes my involvement is simply as a “second opinion” from a prospective buyer before purchasing; sometimes I’ve found that people just tell me stuff for the heck of it – I guess