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Originally Posted by Rubber Duck
James, you are living in cloud cuckoo land. There are plenty of domainer developed sites out there. They have no overall impact. That is not how it works.
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I do not know what you mean by "plenty". Does anyone has an idea about the total number of IDN domainers out there? I am talking about those domainers with good names which will get big direct traffic. Do we have 1,000 of them?
I developed a couple of Chinese IDN websites, mainly to see how they perform on search engines. Cleary IDN has advantage in SEO.
I do not know much about other languages except Chinese. But those good Chinese.com are not developed. Check out those like car.com, loan.com game.com, insurance.com etc. It is those that will have bigger impact on the future direct traffic and how people view IDNs. Directly typing in the URL is not a born behavior, it is an acquired habbit.
The problem is that those premium domains are not likely to be fully developed. One reason is what I mentioned in my early post that those are owned by a few domainers and they do not have the resources to develop all of them. Secondly, when we talk about premium names, they require lots of money to compete with existing large number of ascii domains, which have been invested with huge money and occupied the market. Many domainers with those good names just want to get big money from them without invest much.
Still, good IDNs will be valuable. But without direct traffic (I am talking about the level of English domain names), they will not be comparable to those English domain names. From what I see now, direct traffic is not going to come in the near future, no matter what is the percentage of IE7.