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How are com/net/org doing in China?

May 19, 2016 by Kassey Lee

Have you wondered how well the traditional domain extensions such as com, org, and net are doing in China? I recently found some data on these extensions based on a Chinese news article. Let’s look at the numbers.

In China:

Item Number % as of .com
.com 10,997,941 –
.net 1,415,001 13%
.org 397,970 4%
.biz 70,770 1%
.info 26,107 <1%

Global:

Item Number % as of .com
.com 126,054,800 –
.net 15,638,350 12%
.org 10,884,150 9%
.biz 2,231,104 2%
.info 5,506,791 4%

As you can see, more than 10 million .com domain names have been registered in China. Compared with the 19 million .cn registrations reported on my Stats page, we can say .com is doing very well. On top of that, it is commonly known that in China .com is first followed by .cn in terms of value and preference especially by Chinese corporations.

In these two tables, I try to compare performance of other extensions against .com. You can see here .net is doing very well in China. At 13% of .com registration, it is higher than the global number of 12%.

.org is not that popular in China with only 4%, against the global number of 9%. This may be due to the meaning of the extension. Interpreting .org => organization (a term unfamiliar to many Chinese) => non-profit is a barrier to wide adoption.

Both .biz and .info are not popular in China. I guess not many people in China know biz is the short form for “business”.

Overall, the traditional extensions doing well in China are .com and .net. I hope these comparisons give you an idea on what to buy or sell for the Chinese market.

This first appeared on Coreile.com

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

About Kassey Lee

Kassey Lee is the publisher of Grandseeds.com, a Chinese domain market newsletter containing daily blog, news, and Q&A.

Comments

  1. David says

    June 13, 2016 at 4:29 am

    The key is to just make sure it’s memorable enough, don’t drop any letters or spell it funny if you need people to type it in from memory. If it’s always going to be a link from somewhere then even that doesn’t matter.

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