Rick Latona Entering The IDN Market

[mgrohan]

http://www.ricklatona.com/2008/03/29...rket/#comments

I’m Going To Enter The IDN Market

I think I’m going to start buying and selling IDNs. If you don’t know what they are, this Wikipedia article does a great job explaining them.

Historically, I’ve been a pure .com guy but about a year ago I started getting serious with .net names as well. It’s time to grow my base again so I’ve been going over the options.

As most of you know, I loathe .mobi names and .tv names are too confusing to me due to the annual fees. Info, biz and the rest have potential but they aren’t there yet and I think it will be a long time before they are.

I’m going to place my bet on IDN names for growth. I’ll only deal in IDN.com names and I’m going to be cautious as first because admittedly, I don’t really know what I’m doing yet in this new area.

I’ll only look at the doing deals on the best of them as well. Meaning, actual city names or category killers are the only ones I’m interested in. Please, don’t send me your IDN names unless they are really great.

I’m no longer going to ignore this market. Excuse me if I ask a lot of questions when you contact me because I am a newbie once again.

Good publicity/exposure for IDNs, timing couldn't have been better right after the skinning/sponsoring of namepros.

[jacksonm]

Typical American attitude - he thinks that just because he decides to get into the market, that people will automatically sell him big cities and category killers. I guess he will have to go through a period of awakening.

But yes, the exposure is good.

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[mulligan]

Well my top tier terms are going nowhere .. I just renewed and that's the end of the story .. unless your wallet is very fat indeed .. and .. as I and others always say .. read everything first .. then still got questions? ask away

[Rubber Duck]

Oh my God!

Are we now about to get bombarded with stats about how many CVCV.cyrilic are left?

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Oh my God!

Are we now about to get bombarded with stats about how many CVCV.cyrilic are left?

Is this guy one of those type of "investors" ?

By god, they will have a freaking field day regging the 3 char cyrillics, japanese, chinese, arabic, etc.

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[Rubber Duck]

No, he is not, but if we have a light bulb moment at Namepros, that lot are!

Originally Posted by jacksonm

Is this guy one of those type of "investors" ?

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[jacksonm]

I guess Wot will be getting ready for this crowd!

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[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

By god, they will have a freaking field day regging the 3 char cyrillics, japanese, chinese, arabic, etc.

Especially Arabic!

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by jacksonm

I guess Wot will be getting ready for this crowd!

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Wot has made a career out of these Muppets!

[jacksonm]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Especially Arabic!

Well, I'm the owner of the only Arabic 2 char number that is guaranteed to get type-in traffic:

٨٩.com


It already gets a couple a day and is increasing by the day. Several clicks as well. I think this one will be a revenue generator for a long time.

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