dnjournal dropping the IDN tag stigma

[Lidador]

Nice, very nice, that's the way to go!

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No "IDN" reference, non IDN price.

[bramiozo]

Originally Posted by Lidador

Nice, very nice, that's the way to go!

géolocalisation.com $2,920

Blockbuster Sales of Printer.com and Affiliate.com Pace Another Big Week for the Domain Aftermarket

No "IDN" reference, non IDN price.

Sharp man for noticing then .

More difficult to scan the list now, is there a tool to scan in the browser window using regex ?

[Rubber Duck]

I don't think it is policy. There is a German IDN that is labelled as such.

As for the stigma, that is largely a creation of ASCII players who have promoted their own ends. They will soon feel pretty silly. Rick Latona has had the good grace to admit as much. Some of the others won't be as honest.

Also Stigmas don't really mean that much in commercial terms. Traditionally, in the Anglo-Saxon World there has been a Stigma about being Jewish. They still ended up being a hell of a lot richer on the whole than the rest of the populus.

Stigmas are the creation of short-sighted stupid people. Unfortunately, there is currently no shortage of those about, but things are changing.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I don't think it is policy. There is a German IDN that is labelled as such.

As for the stigma, that is largely a creation of ASCII players who have promoted their own ends. They will soon feel pretty silly.

It's not that, it's just that people that made money become risk adverse. This is how life works, the more money you made, the more chicken you become.

Throwing in one or two hundred grand to get some experience with a new business is not a big deal. When i went into domains, i threw in money into ASCIIs, only to lose a third of it despite trying to get out early.

What worked in the past, may not work in the future. Fact is now, the world has changed, 2008 marks a great global transition, the last world order of 1960-2007 has ended.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

I don't think it is policy. There is a German IDN that is labelled as such.

As for the stigma, that is largely a creation of ASCII players who have promoted their own ends. They will soon feel pretty silly.

It's not that, it's just that people that made money become risk adverse. This is how life works, the more money you made, the more chicken you become, the less willing you are to venture out of the world you know.

Fact is now, the world has changed, 2008 marks a great global transition. What works in the past may not work in the future. The free printing money game of the last 40 years has ended.

[Rubber Duck]

Well, you hit it on the head.

This is very much about World order, which is why I am so interested, some might say obscessive about economic data.

We are going to be serving the World's biggest markets.

Some of the Twits think these places don't matter.

The fact is that these places and the people that live there matter very much.

Milliband might go on about changing the Energy Equation. What the fuck does he mean. They have got it. We need it. They are going to make us pay dearly for it. Even if we start to build nuclear, it is going to take 20 years to have much impact. And in the mean time, the more we antagonise them, the worse it is going to get. Even Iraq is impatient to show the US the door.

[touchring]

While i agree with you on the trend, i disagree with you on how fast this transition will happen. Real life is never smooth sailing, just like the stock market, bear rallies all the way, sucking more people in.

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Well, you hit it on the head.

This is very much about World order, which is why I am so interested, some might say obscessive about economic data.

We are going to be serving the World's biggest markets.

Some of the Twits think these places don't matter.

The fact is that these places and the people that live there matter very much.

Milliband might go on about changing the Energy Equation. What the fuck does he mean. They have got it. We need it. They are going to make us pay dearly for it. Even if we start to build nuclear, it is going to take 20 years to have much impact. And in the mean time, the more we antagonise them, the worse it is going to get. Even Iraq is impatient to show the US the door.

[Rubber Duck]

Yes, and change is not always about trends and smooth transitions.

Generally when sea changes occur they occur abruptly and with little warning.

The Ice Age ended abruptly, sea levels rose and the Black Sea fell within weaks.

Communism dropped apart in a matter of weeks.

Stock Market crashes generally happen within a few days.

Even the recent rise and subsequent decline of oil and the dollar have been very rapid, taking only a few weeks. And that saga is not over yet.

The Internet itself emerged within the blink of an eye in most time scales.

The fact that half the World has been waiting in Limbo waiting for ICANN and Microsoft to connect them meaningfully to the World Wide Web, means that the pressure vessel has been building steam for the best part of a decade. It seems unrealistic to assume that pressure is going to dissapate over several decades as you often seem to suggest.

Furthermore, few people are reading the numbers right. In gross dollar terms, China is growing at over 20% per year, and that rate is likely to continue. Current dollar strength is just an illusion whatever Buffet says. And his wealth has decreased by Billions this year. American GDP growth is based on an inflation rate of just 1 %. Take a realistic rate of 5%, and it soon becomes clear how fast the US economy is shrinking. When the markets catch on the US dollar will start to depreciate, at the inflation differential. Unless, the US does more to check inflation, that could be huge. The shrinkage of the US economy is being documented in reported company profits not only domestically but around the World. When the new administration steps up to the plate, they are going to want to start with a clean sheet. The lies and deceit of the last 12 Months will become clear, and the speed with which the US is losing its grip on the World economy will become clear.

The Russians and the Chinese are under no illusions about how impotent the US is becoming. You can see this refected in their foreign policy.