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Originally Posted by Daniel Dryzek
Right - more PR and more websites promoted under IDN version. It is really happening now in Poland but it took five years from releasing IDNs to make a step forward. And low prices for .pl IDNs (2.5 EUR both for registration and renewal) also helped IDNs in Poland. |
From the .PL Registry perspective I haven't seen almost any change in renewals/% growth after we decreased the prices for .PL IDNs...
My expectation was to increase the renewals and growth by decreasing the price 4 times (by 75%). It's quite "huge" drop, but it doesn't work. There is no more interest in IDNs than before. It's not about price at all, it's about perception. And it's not going to change if there is no major action from ICANN side - implementation of new IDN-TLDs. This will make people around the world
understand that the domain names ARE in the local languages... But ICANN is slow, very slow...
If we talk about % share of .PL IDNs in total # of domain names, it's the same level than 6 years ago...
Andrzej Bartosiewicz, NASK