seo.com on ebay for $30 NR?

[Emerald]

I was surfing around Ebay and came across a strange sale on 3 letter domains - this one says SEO.com and no reserve bid starts at $30 so Im thinking this is too good to be true so I went in and read it.

I'm very confused - I'm lead to believe I am buying seo.com but its some IDN for seo.com What good is this domain? maybe I am missing something - If someone can shed some light on why someone would pay $1750.00 for a IDN instead of the actual domain (check his feedback his last sale was for cho.com for 1750 but the seller didnt actually buy the domain just the IDN)

SEO.com IDN for sale on ebay (http://cgi.ebay.com/3-letter-domain-bookmarks-googles-as-SEO-com-idn-NR_W0QQitemZ270217182514QQihZ017QQcategoryZ11153QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem)

Why would someone buy this, what good is it to the buyer?

|roses|

[Jim]

Bidding Closed :)
US $405.00 for a crap domain.

[Emerald]

I was hoping for CD34 to explain what this IDN really is and does it have any value?

I cant imagine that many people being that stupid to think they are actually bidding on SEO.com and this seller doesnt have negative remarks so Im guessing these people know what they are getting.. I just dont understand what they plan on doing or how to use the IDN number for their benefit.

[Simon]

Just to hold you until cd34 gets here. :)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

[cd34]

at the end of the day, if you can't type http://seo.com/ to get to the domain you purchased, its relatively worthless.

the IDN is using special unicode characters to get the person to it. I'm not sure which of the characters is unicode, but, you would never get typein's using seo.com. Yes, referrals might show up as seo.com in the weblogs because apache is not going to convert it correctly in the logs, its not much more.

Basically, they've used special characters to dupe someone -- and there's no way to tell if the previous buyer was a shill, or, was too embarrassed to post feedback that they didn't get what they thought they were getting.