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"New" Domain Scam on eBay
I swear, there is a scam born every minute on eBay.
http://cgi.ebay.com/SOS-COM-Three-3-...QQcmdZViewItem |
ain't that some shit...
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what's all this IDN stuff about?
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here is a quote from the auction
"Have you watched Matrix, the movie? You know... nothing is at it seems! Well, the same applies to domain names." hahaha |
yo, seems like a steal. i'll pay $4 to have someone add "sos.com" between title tags.
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ROFL. Do people really fall for that shit?
I guess not seeing the high bids on his other idn names. |
the guy who sold the ringtone landing page for $10,000.00 based on several months revenue was the best. that was very funny... and creative.
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hmmm i need some time to read all that shit? im guessing he doesnt own sos.com
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how is it a scam??????
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I dont get it
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as retarded as it sounds I think he is trying to sell some cheap ass domain, xn--ss-jbc.com, saying that it redirects to sos.com when it just shows sos.com in the title and top of the page the cheap domain redirects to.
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You people are clueless.
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BTW in IE7 I see an alert saying that the domain name contains characters that cannot be displayed without changing lang settings.
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That's pretty fucked up.
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I got IE7 and I did not see sos.com in the address bar, only in the title and top of page of some sedo parking page. Maybe one of the IDN experts around here can enlighten everyone. |
heh, I can't believe people fall for that shit...
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IDN are Internationalized Domain Names. They were created to satisfy the needs of ever growing foreign markets whoms language contains characters of non latin origin, such as chinese, japanese, korean, german, turkish, etc, etc.. IDN have been steadily on the rise, both in demand, use & sales.
Certainly something like sos.com as an idn is completely generic & has no potential in reaching value like a 3 char .com, however, IDN of single word or premium search terms ARE extremely valuable if you're doing business to an international market. Chinese, & Japanese IDN for single words such as cars, hotels, etc, have made astronomical dollar amounts when resold. IDN requires I-Nav plugin from Verisign, which help development of the IDN. Currently, Firefox, & certain versions of IE7 already support IDN. IDN work by taking punycode which is the xn-ss-ora.com like strings you seee, & then mapping them to their native characters in the browser windows, etc.. these native characters are things such as accented latin characters, japanese kanji, chinese language characters, sanskrit, various mathematical symbols, etc, etc.... Also, keep in mind that these foreign countries that utilize the IDN have keyboards & software enabling them to type the native character.. Whereas you & I in the US must hold alt & type 129 to get the character ü , someone in turkey, or germany is capable of typing the character directly from their keyboard. Same goes for any IDN.,, certainly you & I are unable to type the japanese characters directly, so, the punycode is used.. the xn-bb-fgh.com looking domains are actually the punycode, & the domain is what you see.. example.. see below, my own IDN http://www.bööbs.com Which is the puny code http://xn--bbs-snaa.com/ .. however, what you see in the status bar when you mouse over it is http://www.bööbs.com, not the punycode.. when you click it.. you get http://www.bööbs.com in the address bar, not the punycode.. their is no code on any page to do any of this,, it is IDN mapping to native characters.. Now.. when a visitor is using a browser not capable of mapping, the visitor will see a verisign page giving the visitor the option of downloading I-Nav plugin which will enable their browser for IDN mapping, or the visitor can continue on the the site/domain without downloading & will see the non mapped results. My own example here would show bbs.com because the öö will not be mapped.. http://www.püssy.com http://www.fück.com anyway.. I'm looking for link trades for these IDN :thumbsup any questions? |
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damnnn pretty crazy shieet
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hmmkay.........
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good find
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Thats been going on for a while. I watched the sex.com IDN name go for some big change on ebay last year. People don't think.
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Regarding the ebay ad, so basically this guy is advertising it as sos.com when really the o in sos is not really an o but rather another character that looks like an o? |
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((What happens with the original sos.com though? Nothing at all. The Internet is going to have 2 sos.coms no matter how strange (or not) this may sound to you. You will be the legal owner of the idn sos.com (a generic term).:1orglaugh
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This is what it look like : http://xn--ss-jbc.com/ :helpme
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