Anyone been buying the Asian domains? - geek/talk: Web publishing business discussion

tomhawks · 11-15-2000, 09:55 PM

I got some good ones. Anybody else?

Edwin · 11-17-2000, 12:22 AM

I presume you mean the new multilingual domain names? I bought around 45 Japanese ones, but it later turned out Registrars.com messed up (overloaded database) and 8 of them were actually not registered (despite the fact I was initially charged for them) and went to somebody else.

Best ones? Probably sonota.com/net/org (in Japanese kanji, of course) and mono.com/net/org (in hiragana)

Edwin

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tomhawks · 11-17-2000, 05:41 AM

You presume correctly.

That's why I like register.com. They usually don't ***** up like that or play games with the expired registrations. I picked up a good .net (soy.net) because someone failed to get the net registered in registering them all.

I got among others (Japanese)

StockExchange.com

I'm thinking about learning a little of the languages and making a few sites. The characters are so detailed and beautiful. Even if the names turn out to be worthless or not used, I'm glad I got them.

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tomhawks · 11-17-2000, 08:48 AM

What does sonota mean?

Edwin · 11-17-2000, 03:21 PM

Sonota is hard to translate, but it essentially has the same meaning as "etc." - I reckon it's used more widely in Japanese than "etc." is used in English though...

So any list of items almost invariably looks like: item1, item2, ..., itemn, sonota

"mono" means "goods" or "things" and is also widely used.

Edwin

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tomhawks · 11-18-2000, 08:34 AM

I take back what I implied about Registrars.com. It's a good service. I like the pre register thing. I got some more good ones. I can see why they may be having problems with resolving the registrations. They were/are probably getting a million hits an hour.

11-15-2000, 09:55 PM	#1
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11-17-2000, 12:22 AM	#2
Edwin Registered User Join Date: Jan 1999 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 670	I presume you mean the new multilingual domain names? I bought around 45 Japanese ones, but it later turned out Registrars.com messed up (overloaded database) and 8 of them were actually not registered (despite the fact I was initially charged for them) and went to somebody else. Best ones? Probably sonota.com/net/org (in Japanese kanji, of course) and mono.com/net/org (in hiragana) Edwin ------------------ Free Email Address Directory: 1,000+ free email services. http://www.emailaddresses.com/

11-17-2000, 05:41 AM	#3
tomhawks Registered User Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 37	You presume correctly. That's why I like register.com. They usually don't ***** up like that or play games with the expired registrations. I picked up a good .net (soy.net) because someone failed to get the net registered in registering them all. I got among others (Japanese) StockExchange.com I'm thinking about learning a little of the languages and making a few sites. The characters are so detailed and beautiful. Even if the names turn out to be worthless or not used, I'm glad I got them. [This message has been edited by tomhawks (edited 11-17-2000).]

11-17-2000, 08:48 AM	#4
tomhawks Registered User Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 37	What does sonota mean?

11-17-2000, 03:21 PM	#5
Edwin Registered User Join Date: Jan 1999 Location: Tokyo, Japan Posts: 670	Sonota is hard to translate, but it essentially has the same meaning as "etc." - I reckon it's used more widely in Japanese than "etc." is used in English though... So any list of items almost invariably looks like: item1, item2, ..., itemn, sonota "mono" means "goods" or "things" and is also widely used. Edwin ------------------ Free Email Address Directory: 1,000+ free email services. http://www.emailaddresses.com/

11-18-2000, 08:34 AM	#6
tomhawks Registered User Join Date: Jun 2000 Posts: 37	I take back what I implied about Registrars.com. It's a good service. I like the pre register thing. I got some more good ones. I can see why they may be having problems with resolving the registrations. They were/are probably getting a million hits an hour.