1N .cn domain names are very valuable because there are only ten available. Because these domain names cost 7 or 8 figures CNY to purchase, buyers tend to be end user companies. Being curious about what the buyers have done to the domain names, I checked the domain names from 0.cn to 9.cn, and here […]

This company recently upgraded its domain name — but from one difficult name to another one, in my opinion. 易 房网 (Yi Fang Wang) is an online real estate service operated by a Qingdao-based company founded in 2009. (BTW, Qingdao city is well known for its beer.) The name means “a website making it easy […]

We just witnessed .xyz overtaking .info to become the 4th largest generic domain extension in the world, thanks to the 2.5m new registrations racked up within just two days when .xyz was selling at as low as $0.01 USD per domain name. When I look at China, I see a race going on and it’s […]

I want to expand on what I wrote in the June 3 blog post “This .com story will repeat many times in China” and look at how to seek opportunities for your .com name in China. We know .com is king in China and therefore is frequently the target of domain upgrade by Chinese companies. […]

承泰 (Cheng Tai) does not need Mana.com for its operation. Nevertheless, the company spent almost a year and also close to 7 figures CNY to acquire this name from its overseas seller, and then let it sit quietly in the corner. Cheng Tai is an fintech startup founded in 2010. By 2013, it already reached […]

It’s common to see companies in China upgrade their domain names. There can be many reasons, such as better name, prestige, publicity, expanded business line, and going global. .com is king in China’s corporate world. We often see companies shortening their .com names. A good case is China-sss.com, which is an inferior name for the […]

Mutual funds investing in domain names are still rare in China, but this morning I came across one which I find very interesting. First of all, the organizer says that their first fund has completed. The fund invested in a 4N .com domain name and sold it within 2.5 months for 1m CNY, yielding mid […]

It works in the same way in China as well as the rest of the world: The best money gets you the best domain names. This rule also hints at something useful too: that the second best and the third best and so forth may still have value. Such domain names may give hope to […]

Recently I read an interesting story in a May 5 news article on eName.cn. In 1997, a student was working at an Internet firm. He was responsible for registering domain names to build websites. But, he only followed the crowd and so missed out the golden opportunity in Pinyin domain names. At that time in […]

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% […]