Hi every experts here. I am researching about IDN recently as you could see my recent posts in other section. Ok now, while browsing domain marketplace at afternic just now, I was pretty much shock to notice that there are some IDN which are able to rack in a good price. See this particular sale :- http://www.afternic.com/name.php?id=12224925

If you see the "Offer history", there are a totally of 7bids offered for this IDN. And it was sold for USD380/= ! This is indeed a good price considering the name which I don't even understand what it means:confused:

What your thoughts in this? So far anyone involved in IDN trade yet? Would you kind enough to share your "secret" with us?:p

Hi everyone, learning thru zach reply and information pertaining to IDN (in my other thread), it sparks my thoughts further. Thus this thread is open for the purpose of studying the potential traffic for IDNs.

As I am aware, most browser have yet to support IDN at this moment, how high the potential of such domains in term of getting the traffic volume? Anyone currently have IDN under their belt? Hw is your IDN performing so far? or you are still waiting for IE7 final release which is suppose to be able to support IDN ?

Kind to share?

Ok guys, it is not a new thing to us that there are some domains with only numbers in them, eg 123 .com, 163 .com ..etc . On top of this, there a tones of domain with numbers in them, eg biz365 .com, trade365 .com...etc. So how do these domain able to gain the recognition from search engine? I mean, they could not possibly contain "keyword" in them isn't it?? especially those with purely numbers only!

Anyone has good inputs?

Anyone have been involed in international domain names? I have always wonder how is it possible for this type of domain to exist!:confused: Anyone have ideas as to how are they actually being regulated? Are they also under ICANN?? Any special rule for these type of domains?

Kind to share?

Hi everyone. to my knowledge, the "poker" related domain names are getting some serious attention from domain players paying. They are seeking the best opportunity to grab these domains if the price is right.

Now, what's about the true value in these type of domains? Is it due to the potential traffic from major SE for the keyword contained in these domains? or because these domains can be developed into website with related poker affiliate programs which pay high commision?

Hi everyone. I am trying to get into grabbing some expired domain name. Well, some domains seems good to me as they are currently having google PR and/or some back links in the major 3 search engines.

Yup, I am quite surprise to see that those expired domain are having some back links and even google PR. Most likely the said domain is just expired few days ago, and search engine have yet to synchronoze their data centre on this domain status change.

So now, if I were to grab and register these domains before the effect of expiration took place, would I be able to sort of "securing" the PR ? meaning the PR wouldn't drop?

What about the existing back links? Would it be still in effect?

In order to have a better chance of selling your domain you need to show that a potential buyer need your domain. You ned to generate an interest. Luckily, we have some things we can do to improve the interest.

Most buyers look at two things:
- The domain name.
- Traffic.

The domain name is fixed, we can't change that. Some domains generates more interest than others, the domain abc.com would be much better than woodenoakfurniture.co.uk.
Having said that, the domain name is not that crucial, I managed to sell a 14-character domain name with a hyphen at $100, so you can still make some nice money even if the domain name is not a niche domain name.

Which brings me on to the next subject, traffic. This was primarily why the domain went at the relative high price. The thing any webmaster wants more than a good domain name is traffic, therefore always provide stats from a reliable source. I generally accept the most popular stats services such as nedstats, extreme tracking and google analytics. Although I don't rule out services I don't know if they appear to be geniue.

You now have the basic layout of your sales speech, most buyers would be satisfied with knowing just this, but we're going to take it just a bit further. Because we know, that the one thing more interesting than traffic, is targeted traffic. Therefore I suggest your write a short description of what you used to have on the site, that way a buyer can see what sort of traffic he is dealing with.

It's important to note though, if it's not the right traffic he might not make a bid, but if it is the right traffic he'll go over the edge to make sure he gets it.

I hope I inspired you to write a proper sales speech, in the end it will benefit both you and the buyer.

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