银行.com sold for $21,022
银行.com, Chinese for bank.com just sold on snapnames for $21,022.
A bargain for the buyer, and great news for Chinese IDNs especially .com’s which have recently seen a number of decent sale prices.
Archive for August, 2008
UNESCO’s involvement with IDNs
Great to see the important of IDNs recognized by a major international body, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization), and their work towards the successful planning, implementation, and bringing awareness of them. In the following post: ICANN approves the introduction of internationalized domain names, UNESCO discuss their involvement to date with IDNs and [...]
IDN market heating up.
Looks like the IDN market is heating up with one domain sale of $xxx,xxx and another deal of $x,xxx,xxx. While full details have not yet been released, the buyer has let it known that the sales were all for Russian IDNs.
Also reported a Chinese seller sold a .cn for a good $xx,xxx to a business [...]
.ORG & NCUC Joint Letter to ICANN on Internationalized Domain Names
Recently we teamed up with the Non-Commercial Users Constituency (NCUC) to express our concern to ICANN that the rights and needs of end-users are taken into account in the discussion of Internationalized Domain Names (IDN). Namely, IDNs are to be seen as a technical measure to allow for multi-lingual direction navigation of the Internet and [...]