Say Spearmaster,
Is this opinion from experience or just opinion?
jps aren’t even close to being $100 each. At the most I’m paying $35 a year with my first year being around $7.
Now from my prospective being fluent in Japanese, Lived in Tokyo for 7 years, working in a SEO firm partly owned by a major search engine, owning the largest website in English that has been doing research on IDN domains. I think I quite possibly know a few things you might not.
IE7 will be out soon, it will be an automatic update. It will be IDN friendly
All the search engines are IDN compatible already.
IDNs are the only domains for Japanese that have any seo value.
My domain テレビゲーム.com (console games) if you search for the term it’s on the front page of Yahoo Japan. I didn’t even do a lot to optimize it.
For example ビンゴ.jp (bingo)
Japanese see Bingo in Japanese & recocgnize it. When they see it they can remember it. You think a Japanese person (in Japan) is going to spell “Affiliate” in English correctly?
So I respect your opinion, but I’d like to see you post facts to back up IDNs being worthless.
From a Japan standpoint even the Japan registry http://jprs.jp/
Is looking so forward to the release of IE7 so that IDNs will be the normal domains of Japan.
So I’m just going to present unbiased facts about them. No hype, just facts.
The rest could turn out to be interesting, though.