Comments on: Diversify Your Domain Portfolio: How IDNs are Registered in Punycode

By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 23:08:43 +0000

that’s a common misunderstanding and actually a mixing up of statistics.

A lot of Chinese people can get by reading English, as English is mandatory on the school curriculum.

But being able to read English, doesn’t equate to it being the preference for conversation or written form. If that was the case, then all Chinese websites would be full of English content, and the top searched browser terms you would also expect to be in English… check out Googles Zeitgeist for 2009, and you’ll see the top searched terms in China: http://www.google.com/intl/en_us/press/zeitgeist2009/regional.html#china

You can also head on over to IDNclub or IDNforums, there are plenty of native Chinese domainers on those two forums that will give you the low-down from an end users perspective.

By: t

Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:41:04 +0000

Did you know china will soon be the number one english speaking country in the world.

Heres an interesting video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIDLIwlzkgY

By: Aaron Krawitz

Aaron Krawitz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:53:30 +0000

@Jim – “free from jail” is a funny one.

But it sounds like you did well with Video.com and Wireless.com in Chinese.

By: Aaron Krawitz

Aaron Krawitz — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:48:36 +0000

@Peter – Unfortunately, IDNs aren’t supported under the .ru extension, which would lead one right back to IDN.com.

Gary wrote a fantastic post on the Russian market here (http://www.idndemystified.com/category/russia) if you are interested in exploring further.

By: Peter Davis

Peter Davis — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 20:42:48 +0000

Yea, China is probably a bad example. I wouldn’t invest there personally. Getting .ru domains for Russian words might be a good idea though, as an example. I also like the individual European country codes over the .eu.