Careful about IDN domain crap on Sedo.
IDN domains have been around for several years, in an effort to convince the ‘native’ speakers of several languages who don’t use the Latin (ASCII) character set, that they have a purpose in online life.
There is, however, a category of IDN domains that defines them as pure ‘crap’ as a whole.
That’s right: because of the abuse of the IDN function by some bad domainer apples, the entire IDN function and purpose is rendered useless.
A large set of IDN domains on sale on Sedo caught our eye; all from the same seller who appears to be from Ukraine.
These domains are registered on purpose to confuse potential buyers on Sedo, into thinking that they are acquiring a generic domain of purely ASCII letters.
Examples from that sale include the following domains, that are all faking their existence:
рһр.com
һі.com
һе.com
оһ.com
хі.com
3ԁ.com
сԁ.com
іԁ.com
ԁј.com
ѕһор.com
ѕһор.net
ѕһорѕ.com
ѕехѕһор.com
аррѕһор.com
рсѕһор.com
оһіо.com
іԁаһо.com
ѕау.com
ѕеа.com
ѕһір.com
ѕһоеѕ.com
оорѕ.com
һарру.com
Note how all of those IDN domains are intentionally registered in order to confuse. These aren’t native words in an IDN character set, but rather, domain doppelgangers.
While Sedo publishes the punycode of these domains at the individual domain’s auction pages, they are not marked as such on the listing of Featured or Top Domains; an overly excited or careless domain bidder can easily bid on those ‘bastardized‘ IDN domains.
Buyer beware!
Look at this one: http://www.namepros.com/idn-domains-for-sale/753007-oogle-com.html
OMFG!