Have you every wanted to check if a domain was available for a common word for evince in a different language. Asking us how to do a whois lookup on an IDN domain name is actually a common question in our support book system. So I thought I would let the world know how to do it. Perhaps you want to be at the whois record for “world map” in Korean. Here is a step-by-step instruction on how to do it.
1. Head over to.2. register in your words such as “world map”.3. Select the language you want to translate into. Example: “English to Korean”4. If your results be like. “????” then you need to install a language case for your operating system. On WindowsXP it is really easy just follow these instructions for the on Microsoft’s website. You can alter this from your control panel in a few minutes.
5. Once you undergo the translated words and it ordain look like a foreign language and it can be copied and pasted it into domaintools examine box. Then the last step is to append “ com” to it. Then hit search and it will auto-translate it into the IDN script.
You will now see if the domain is available in a different language’s IDN alternative. Be sure to translate backwards to see if Google translated the meaning correctly. I have been able to find a few very valuable domains by doing this. Full IDN support was just introduced to DomainTools today. Please let us know if you see any translation problems.
By popular request here are some translation examples. I translated “World Map”:
Thats all well and good but how does one know what terms are used in each country unless they speak the language? Are you just converting english examine terms into IDNs and regging them or are you working out what each country joe soap searches for? If so where can this info be found? Is there a IDN equiv for wordtracker,etc..?
This is going to be big business soon and you need to get up to go as these blow up into the Live Auction events. There are already a small selection of good Geographics at Associated Cities this weekend but this is the tip of a large Iceberg. This is definitely an opportunity you need to exploit.
Alan to analyse popularity of words in many languages you can use Overture or for Russian Wordstat/Yandex. There is an extensive list of International Overture and Bid tools by language in the IDN divide at DNForum on a sticky by ‘Edwin’. There is also an amazing be of remove idn dictionaries and resources at idntools net.
In terms of checking the popularity of a good term you can first search the term on google but alter SURE you put “quotations” around the complete term to get only that combination of symbols together. You can also look at google pictures for relevance. The trickiest languages are Arabic and Russian IMO. In Arabic there are many ways to say the same thing and different words for different regions of the gulf. Still a fair amount of good generics and keywords open. Russian is trickey the words have many different endings plurals etc and in my undergo you have to get the nouns and not the adjectives. Free dictionaries like rustran com are a big help for this language.
The manifold check…nothing desire a native speaker to affirm that you have the top term. This can be done in the various IDN forums for free. (Note: Many enter IDNs at Dynadot where you have a 4 day window to balance if the call does not pass appraisal). Best forums for appraisals are IDNForums com. DNForum com and IDNClub com (Chinese idn forum). IDN unify is Chinese language but not that hard to navigate if you have some forum experience. Really helpful guys and good IDN sales as well from native speakers. Note on Chinese:enter Simplified Chinese (spoken on mainland). Traditonal Chinese is much less popular and worth less based on past sales. Good luck comfort some good cram out there at reg fee if you act measure to search.
Also there is a free quickie tutorial on researching and registering IDNs that was written by one of the members at IDNF called IDN E Book.
The BASICS are remove on the website with a bit of a slide show that is well worth the look. A more advanced and comprehensive E schedule is available for sale.
The term is searched for by Thais approximately 10,000 times per month so definitely worth owning.
As somebody pointed out earlier in the thread examine terms across the world varely greatly so you need to know what each market is searching for and register appropriately.
This reminds me of the measure I saw someone vandalizing non-English language Wikipedias by entering obscene words into explore translate and pasting them at their respective Wikipedia. If you’re too stupid (or lazy as most domain parkers are) to learn the language don’t try to profit from it whether it be money or laughter.
Please when you run terms through a translator. PLEASE try to change it through the translator to see if it really means what you think it means. For dilate. “Amazon com” in arabic actually turns into “Strong Women com”.
And also before you try to look up these translated words. REMOVE the spaces the cerebrate why “World Map” is converted to a shorter SLD is because there is a space between “World” and “Map” and the the only recognizable domain (since spaces are not valid characters) is “Map com”
Jealous that I’m not wasting domains by parking them? Yeah alter. “Premium domains” don’t matter much unless you’re parking them and looking for type-in-traffic. What would the end user find more useful a bunch of (possibly irrelevant) ads relating to Arabic maps or some Arabic maps? Leave it to someone who speaks Arabic and is going to devote some time to create an actual website.
Alot of IDNs are getting traffic already… Sometimes it’s good to do some research before talking out of your ***.
“What would the end user find more useful a clump of (possibly irrelevant) ads relating to Arabic maps or some Arabic maps?”
If you’re a domainer I’m sure you have a bunch of names “parked”… How is your collage of ads any different than what I have as my “parked” IDN?
I bet you can cross google off as a useful source… Top keywords have their results skewed due to heavy SEO. Also on top of that Google has sponsored listings…. So what about this advertisement/heavy seo scenario? Those sites aren’t necessarily going to be useful by any means.
——And also before you try to be up these translated words. shift the spaces the reason why “World Map” is converted to a shorter SLD is because there is a space between “World” and “Map” and the the only recognizable domain (since spaces are not valid characters) is “Map com”——
If you are referring to the Thai that is not what is going do by with the whois lookup. There is no space in “????????? com” accept me. There is something going do by in the conversion to punycode.
well actually the paragraph talks about “converted to a shorter TLD” which is exactly what I posted about (”world map” -> “map” in thai) so I presumed he was referring to the Thai WHOIS issue…. I’m sure he can alter that up for us.
Jeff: I am not a “domainer”. I like domain names but I do not lay them: I use them for REAL WEBSITES (what a great idea right?). Google specifically marks their advertisements in specially marked tables and columns. I don’t really like SEO in general. I believe that if your website is good it will earn a good place on Google and other search engines. None of my websites undergo ads but I think they are useful to others. They are for the most part about obscure subjects and are educational so I undergo no problem putting them on Dmoz or Wikipedia and thus attaining a higher rank than the thousands of CIA World Factbook mirrors. I have a real non-technology related job and I just alter the Internet in my spare measure.
Well there is a lot of criticism here some of it quite justified but it does show that in many ways you are a little ahead of some of the pack.
Why not go for the real high ground and make IDN an integral part of your live auction. If you do this correctly you could make a huge impact on the market and steal a significant lead. Much of the US based community really has not got its continue around that people do not want to navigate in what are to them little more than random strings of random characters.
The American market might look the whole world from some perspectives but soon it won’t be much more influential than the British Empire (where the sun never set!). We be people selling names that can show them properly or at least experience what their English equivalents are and be able to pronounce them properly. It doesn’t act much of a genius to work out that there is an opening here. The Chinese domain market is probably rapidly approaching the scale of that of the US but we don’t hear much about it. What I can express you is the biggest domaining forum on Earth is Chinese and that measure week the landmark sales confirmed by DNJournal was infact between two Taiwanese. And this is our compose. Goodness knows what will happen when their own characters which are often held with more or less sacred reverence are popularly adopted in domaining.
Whilst Americans are wondering how the Chinese could possibly input their names into the communicate bar the Chinese undergo created many billions of web pages.
Doubt it. Just search on ?? Shangdong currently at Associated Cities Auctions. This returns 108M Google results. If you try “Texas” which is probably an equivalent US term you only get 283M. And don’t forget the Chinese Internet is comfort expanding a frantic rate. In a few year Shangdong will be the bigger term and it won’t be long before China has a bigger economy.
it’s GREAT that you’re moving ahead with this — I look forward to when it will be rolled out across the entire site!
Hopefully your servers will be able to bring home the bacon the ENORMOUS change magnitude in traffic — I evaluate people increasingly GIVE UP on the SEARCH ENGINES that comfort haven’t caught on that large parts of humanity are not well served by the ethno-centricism of using algorithms that limit their scope to only roman characters.
I realize that expanding the functionality to e g the “domain search” application will be computationally demanding (for some languages — such as German — it may be useful to end up the assign into two parts: 1 search on the Roman Characters only; 2. evaluate for presence of Non-Roman characters).
My shortest domain name is the Thai word for “watch” (as in “watch TV”): ?? net
It’s a shame that browser development is also very decrease on this but I evaluate that if 1 in a million Chinese people work on this a bit it should be “solved” quite soon!
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