Comments on: Obligatory Commentary and Internationalized Domain Names http://www.interdigitalstrategies.com/blog/search-general/obligatory-commentary-and-internationalized-domain-names/ Search Marketing views and reviews Tue, 29 Jan 2008 22:58:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Joe Dolson http://www.interdigitalstrategies.com/blog/search-general/obligatory-commentary-and-internationalized-domain-names/comment-page-1/#comment-12 Joe Dolson Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:32:00 +0000 http://dev.interdigitalstrategies.com/blog/?p=68#comment-12 You know, I knew that you were living in Japan - you'd mentioned it on your blog at some time. I should have assumed you were talking to Japanese speakers! Mea culpa! Awareness of international domain names is a relevant problem...thanks for your 2 cents! You know, I knew that you were living in Japan – you’d mentioned it on your blog at some time. I should have assumed you were talking to Japanese speakers! Mea culpa!

Awareness of international domain names is a relevant problem…thanks for your 2 cents!

]]> By: John Scott http://www.interdigitalstrategies.com/blog/search-general/obligatory-commentary-and-internationalized-domain-names/comment-page-1/#comment-11 John Scott Wed, 22 Mar 2006 09:26:00 +0000 http://dev.interdigitalstrategies.com/blog/?p=68#comment-11 Hi Joe Wow, somebody actually reads my blog! :) Actually all the people I've been speaking with about this are Japanese. (I live in Japan) Most Japanese don't even know that you can buy IDN's. And that is one other aspect of the problem, in my opinion. If you're on the phone and say, "Hey go to Tokyo dot com", most Japanese users would go to www.tokyo.com, not 東京.com. It creates duplicate domains, and you'd suffer the same fate as .net domains suffer at the hands of .com's. Just my 2 cents, of course. Hi Joe

Wow, somebody actually reads my blog! :)

Actually all the people I’ve been speaking with about this are Japanese. (I live in Japan)

Most Japanese don’t even know that you can buy IDN’s. And that is one other aspect of the problem, in my opinion. If you’re on the phone and say, “Hey go to Tokyo dot com”, most Japanese users would go to http://www.tokyo.com, not 東京.com. It creates duplicate domains, and you’d suffer the same fate as .net domains suffer at the hands of .com’s.

Just my 2 cents, of course.

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