Wine.com Sells for $1,025 on eBay!

Anyone who thinks they are buying wine.com for 1k has no business buying domains in the first place.

do i understand this correctly and the i is actually some letter from a different alphabet?

never heard of IDN domain names before

It's an internationalized domain that contains the unicode equivalent of one or more foreign characters.

Unbelievable!

Don't they give bad feedback to the guy?

Exactly.

The one that was purchased is actually xn--wne-jua.com, however, they neglect to tell prospective purchasers that the wine.com they are seeing is the Turkish unicode translation of the Turkish text on the screen, not the actual domain they are buying.

More Examples:

amerıca.com
xn--amerca-s9a.com

auctıon.com
xn--aucton-s9a.com

autoınsurance.com
xn--autonsurance-44b.com

busıness.net
xn--busness-tfb.net

credıtcards.com
xn--credtcards-0ub.com

cruıse.com
xn--cruse-p4a.com

datıng.com
xn--datng-p4a.com

deposıt.com
xn--depost-t9a.com

dıamond.com
xn--damond-p9a.com

gamıng.com
xn--gamng-p4a.com

gıfts.com
xn--gfts-lza.com

ınsure.com
xn--nsure-m4a.com

ınter.net
xn--nter-kza.net

ınvestment.com
xn--nvestment-upb.com

lınks.com
xn--lnks-lza.com

medıa.com
xn--meda-nza.com

movıes.com
xn--moves-p4a.com

onlınepoker.com
xn--onlnepoker-zub.com

pızza.net
xn--pzza-lza.net

rıngtones.com
xn--rngtones-tkb.com

wıne.com
xn--wne-jua.com

holy crap on a cracker...

I still don't get how they are able to get away with it by not mentioning it on the listing or description.

No way the buyer won't get his money back if he filed a claim.

Unless the guy empties out his paypal account instantly and makes a run for it.

Wow, 45 people give bids.

No way! Please verify and post unique bidder ID's here

army hit me up on the E

idn is garbage

p***p ( 2727Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $1,025.00
Feb-10-15 14:02:21 PST

p***p ( 2727Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $1,025.00
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x***r ( 1995Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $1,000.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $525.00
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r***a ( 8 ) US $525.00
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c***8 ( 204Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $501.59
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $500.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $475.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $455.00
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c***8 ( 204Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $450.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $445.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $435.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $425.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $415.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $405.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $395.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $385.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $375.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $350.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $325.00
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a***o ( 4 ) US $300.00
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i***e ( 11Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $300.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $280.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $250.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $235.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $220.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $205.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $190.00
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a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $175.00
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a***o ( 4 ) US $165.00
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i***n ( 17Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $160.00
Feb-09-15 19:03:38 PST

a***o ( 4 ) US $160.00
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s***s ( 130Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $150.00
Feb-08-15 20:57:45 PST

c***c ( 0 ) New eBay Member (less than 30 days) US $130.00
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c***c ( 0 ) New eBay Member (less than 30 days) US $120.00
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c***k ( 674Feedback score is 500 to 999) US $111.00
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d***8 ( 4 ) US $100.00
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w***a ( 5 ) US $75.00
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i***z ( 0 ) New eBay Member (less than 30 days) US $50.00
Feb-08-15 05:39:11 PST

w***a ( 5 ) US $40.00
Feb-08-15 07:11:24 PST

a***b ( 30Feedback score is 10 to 49) US $20.00
Feb-07-15 23:46:52 PST

a***o ( 126Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $5.00
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e***d ( 79Feedback score is 50 to 99) US $3.00
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p***s ( 127Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $3.00
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s***i ( 367Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $2.00
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s***u ( 189Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $1.00
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s***i ( 367Feedback score is 100 to 499)

An internationalized domain name (IDN) is an Internet domain name that contains at least one label that is displayed in software applications, in whole or in part, in a language-specific script or alphabet, such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Tamil, Hebrew or the Latin alphabet-based characters with diacritics, such as French. These writing systems are encoded by computers in multi-byte Unicode. Internationalized domain names are stored in the Domain Name System as ASCII strings using Punycode transcription.
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