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Originally Posted by Vent 
I would use £poker.com for marketing and redirect it to another domain (sterlingpoker.co.uk is available). xn--poker-9fa.com looks so ugly in firefox, I imagine the bounce rate is very high.
Do you have any other developing projects?
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Thanks for the suggestion. I think you've hit it bang on with the marketing angle, and that's where the value in this domain sits...it's potentially a UK marketing dream.
There haven't been enough visitors yet to gauge bounce rate, but remember that IE users resolve to and will see £poker. Using stats from some other sites, my records show average 82% IE visitors (haven't researched widely but suspect this is close to global average). Obviously not wise to discount any visitor base, but the trade off for use of such a visually powerful domain might be one worth taking. It may also only be a matter of time before all browsers resolve to unicode.
For anyone focusing on other areas of the business, I'm also holding £Bingo.com and £Casino.com. Development will follow shortly.
Other sites in early stages of development include Russian, Korean, and Japanese sites using IDNs in relevant language.