blögs.com - Potential or Crap?
 

so when this tld domain thing got announced, i picked up blögs.com but yet to take the time to do anything with it... potential or let it go?

maybe if you sell it to someone on ebay. I wouldn't even know how to type that ö . So I'm sure the other 90% of the internet would be in the same boat.

how would an american type that ö?

i agree with crockett, sell it on ebay :)

http://www.xn--blgs-6qa.com/

wierd, I still don't get how all that works

Every dime you spend on branding it would go towards blogs.com

on a similar note what would you guys think of "blogz.com" think the branding would go to blogs.com?

(just an example I don't own blogz.com)

well, I think there are two types of branding, visual and audio....it would have to be a pure visual branding campaign, people would have to see blogZ.com over and over and over again, so they knew it was Z

kinds of like camz.com, the z on the end has an excellent brand now

how would you visually brand blögs? what is the ö even called?

Yea that's what I'm thinking.. not to get off his topic. But I recently picked up a big keyword domain with a "z" in it instead of the "s" for the video game industry. I want to develop a site on it, but there is already a site on the "s" domain so I'm kinda torn if I should use it or not.

I figure I could heavily push the "z" to brand it. but word of mouth traffic would likely go to the "s" domain. Same with type in traffic.

The ö is accented with a mutation or affection commonly found in Germanic languages & is referred to as an umlaut. You type it by holding the alt key & typing 148.

the domain blögs.com is an IDN, Internationalized domain name. The equivalent you see, xn--blgs-6qa.com is punycode which maps the native characters to the browser.

As far as visual branding goes, and more explanation on IDN, check out my website

http://www.bööbs.com/about_boobs

In that case I know all those little teenager kids like to play with that suff in chats.. Maybe market it to them as "the hip" place to have a blog that only the cool kids will know how to reach.

precisely

Or market it to germans, or turks, or any other origins that utilize germanic vowels

useless domain

2 cents

how the hell does that work?

i agree with polish

Not true.
ö is a completely different letter to o.
blögs.com is worthless imho.. it just looks stupid to my eyes. It's comparable to 'Possy' which you'd want to mean 'pussy'

I personally own tylsää.fi and tylsaa.fi (means boring).


I'm still yet to develop them though.

nameservers don't recognize scandinavic letters, but newer browsers do.. therefor the domain names must me in a format the nameservers understand. Or something along those lines.

Yeah..or it's the last letter of the scandinavic alphabet, and bööbs is just dumb. lol.

but aren't you able to pull a lot of search engine traffic ... from people going after blogs.com ? so if they are actively building traffic with the actual domain ... piggyback... or else just hold it in the portfolio for a bit.

I can see some value in it because the sites name is so short and official looking, but pretty useless in all other aspects.

Did GFY "URLise" that or did you? The actual linked site is the encoded version, which kinda defeats the purpose.

I'll try typing just the URL here and see what happens ---> http://www.bööbs.com/about_boobs

edit: interesting, looks like vbulletin encodes the URL.

no, vbulletin had nothing to do with it. You can use native characters or punycode. Reason it works with vbulletin is because native characters are unicode, or utf. If you typed the native characters onto an html page coded in iso or something other than utf-8, then there could be errors in browser mapping. When you use the punycode as the link, it shows the native characters in the browser as well as the on mouseover, etc.. only place you see the punycode is in the source code.




http://xn--bbs-snaa.com/ <-- look at status bar
http://b&#246;&#246;bs.com/

i dont think its worth anything, i wouldnt know how to type the symbol either.

On another note.. don't beat yourself over the head on this. :winkwink:

punycode or native characters are both the same & are only different to human eyes, but to browsers & search engines, etc.. it is only the native characters they see.

SE see's it as bööbs

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=...%C3%B6bs&meta=

basically you get 2 domains that are one, so to speak

worthless, only use for it is selling it to some idiot on ebay...

1. I think you mean.."IDN" ...not TLD

2. If you have to ask...