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 IDNBlog.com: The latest issue of Managing IP magazine featured a cover article entitled, “How to Take Advantage of IDNs.” Managing IP magazine is the leading publication for intellectual property executives looking to build and maintain their IP portfolios. In this IDN themed issue, end-users are taking note of the importance of ownin…

 IDNBlog.com: I bought bangqiu.asia, which means “baseball” in Mandarin Pinyin. SInce I registered this name before May 10, 2011, I will be able to apply for the IDN version 棒球.asia during the sunrise period, and well before the landrush. Similarly, if you’d like to have the opportunity to register a top IDN.asia name during the …

 IDNBlog.com: What will happen with the aliasing of IDNs and how soon? This question loomed large for many readers of the latest April 15, 2011 Draft of the Applicant Guidebook for New gTLDs, where the treatment of existing IDNs did not receive much attention. A particular concern given the latest guidebook is that owners of IDN.com

 IDNBlog.com: Steve Clarke has been investing in IDNs since 2005. Steve is an active member of IDNForums and owns premium IDNs across many top languages. In addition, Steve just sold कैसीनो.com for five figures. Enjoy the Q&A that follows. Q: Let’s start by talking about your recent big Hindi sale. What was the domain name, and

 IDNBlog.com: A number of press releases noting the forthcoming .Asia IDN launch have been issued and describe the following: Pre-registration of .Asia domains with Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters has begun. Sunrise and landrush is based on a model where all applications received within their respective periods will be considered to be rec…

 IDNBlog.com: Japan is trying to recover from the magnitude-9.0 earthquake and tsunami, which left over half a million people homeless. As Japan is in a state of crisis, here are some ways you can help donate: Visit Redcross.org or text REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10 from your phone. Visit UNICEF here Visit International Medical Corps

 IDNBlog.com: Registrants of auctioned .РФ domains (“.RF” in Russian) stand to collectively lose millions of dollars in development costs if their .РФ domain names are seized and “refunded.” The RU Coordination Center recently considered two proposals (among others) to discipline registrars who held unauthorized auctions fo…

 IDNBlog.com: DNJournal’s latest sales report broke the news of yet another set of four figure IDN sales. A Thai IDN – เกาะเสม็ด.com (the name of the island “Koh Samet”) sold for $3,999 via BocaNames.com A German IDN – Aktionär.de (meaning “Shareholder”) sold for $8,479 via Sedo.

 IDNBlog.com: Google has been building its IDN portfolio steadily and it has been increasingly noticeable in WHOIS searches. More recently, friends and colleagues have been pointing out Google’s IDNs as follows. Courtesy of Andrew, I was made aware of Google’s purchase of 古歌.tw, which is a Mandarin typo for Google. The main Mandarin te…

 IDNBlog.com: Joshua Quittner, the tech journalist, originally registered McDonalds.com to prove a point. His registration of the fast-food goliath’s domain name was a wake-up call for big companies that they needed to “get it” as to the importance of domain names and internet branding. While this was a prank of sorts (full artic…