American cybersquatters enter foreign markets
The largest cybersquatters in the United States are starting to buy hundreds of thousands of domains in other countries. Currently in demand .mx (Mexico), .pl (Poland), as well as dozens of other national domains.
CNNMoney magazine compares cybersquatters with investors in the real estate market. Like their colleagues from the offline world, they invest in real estate, but only virtual, and profit from the general rise in prices in the market. And prices in the domain market are constantly growing as the growth of Internet advertising is increasing. Characteristically, this growth is now strongly felt not only in the United States, but also in many other countries. Due to online advertising, the entire virtual economy is growing and domain prices are rising, and it is also possible to make a profit from the “parked” domains, which has now become common practice.
Recently, noticeable activity of American cybersquatters has been observed in the domain zones .eu (European Union), .es (Spain), .cn (China) and .br (Brazil), as well as in some others.
After the recent discovery of a new domain .eu, in the very first days, hundreds of thousands of domain names were registered (the .eu zone immediately ranked eighth on the Internet in terms of the number of domains). Some of them were immediately put up for auction. In July, the domain Hotels.eu was sold for $ 330,000, and Shopping.eu for $ 200,000.
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Experts explain the reason for the entry of US cybersquatters to foreign markets. They behave like investors and seek to diversify their portfolio. In many countries, the potential of their own domain zones is still far from being exhausted. According to the director of the domain auction Sedo , at the moment the most relevant markets are the zones .mx (Mexico) and .pl (Poland). However, the market begins to overheat in some other countries.
For example, Russian cybersquatters complain that recently it has become almost impossible to work, because Denis Gledenov is buying at auction about half of all free domains on the Runet. In his property, judging by the estimates, there are already more than 4,000 domains in the .ru zone. Denis Gledenov has long been working in the Russian market and claims to be the most famous cybersquatter in Russia.
However, even he is far from the sharks of Western imperialism, who can freely afford to buy 400,000 domain names, as iReit has done over the past year and a half. According to information from unofficial sources, this company recently spent several million dollars to purchase a collection of domains in .de (Germany), .nl (Netherlands) and .fr (France) zones. Now the company is trying to enter the markets of India and China. It is possible that American capitalists will soon reach the Russian market.
CNNMoney magazine compares cybersquatters with investors in the real estate market. Like their colleagues from the offline world, they invest in real estate, but only virtual, and profit from the general rise in prices in the market. And prices in the domain market are constantly growing as the growth of Internet advertising is increasing. Characteristically, this growth is now strongly felt not only in the United States, but also in many other countries. Due to online advertising, the entire virtual economy is growing and domain prices are rising, and it is also possible to make a profit from the “parked” domains, which has now become common practice.
Recently, noticeable activity of American cybersquatters has been observed in the domain zones .eu (European Union), .es (Spain), .cn (China) and .br (Brazil), as well as in some others.
After the recent discovery of a new domain .eu, in the very first days, hundreds of thousands of domain names were registered (the .eu zone immediately ranked eighth on the Internet in terms of the number of domains). Some of them were immediately put up for auction. In July, the domain Hotels.eu was sold for $ 330,000, and Shopping.eu for $ 200,000.
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Experts explain the reason for the entry of US cybersquatters to foreign markets. They behave like investors and seek to diversify their portfolio. In many countries, the potential of their own domain zones is still far from being exhausted. According to the director of the domain auction Sedo , at the moment the most relevant markets are the zones .mx (Mexico) and .pl (Poland). However, the market begins to overheat in some other countries.
For example, Russian cybersquatters complain that recently it has become almost impossible to work, because Denis Gledenov is buying at auction about half of all free domains on the Runet. In his property, judging by the estimates, there are already more than 4,000 domains in the .ru zone. Denis Gledenov has long been working in the Russian market and claims to be the most famous cybersquatter in Russia.
However, even he is far from the sharks of Western imperialism, who can freely afford to buy 400,000 domain names, as iReit has done over the past year and a half. According to information from unofficial sources, this company recently spent several million dollars to purchase a collection of domains in .de (Germany), .nl (Netherlands) and .fr (France) zones. Now the company is trying to enter the markets of India and China. It is possible that American capitalists will soon reach the Russian market.
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/4349/
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