My college days at The Chinese University of Hong Kong were about fun, friends, and sometime aimless activities. Yet, to some, it’s a place to germinate great ideas. Take Xiaoou TANG and Li XU, a CUHK professor and a PhD student respectively who in 2014 had an “aha!” moment and founded the AI startup SenseTime. […]
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7 Common Pitfalls of Domain Leasing
When most people think of leasing, they tend to think of common things such as vehicles, buildings and land to name a few. But what most fail realize is that domain names are high on the list of things to be frequently leased. Although leasing is nothing new under the sun, domain lease agreements often […]
Continue ReadingBranding 2.0 and domains
Image courtesy of various brands While traditional branding (Branding 1.0) focuses on “what”, domains add the “where” dimension to it. Well, I must say that I’m not a branding expert, so my knowledge about branding may be limited. As I understand, Branding 1.0 is about associating a brand with “what”. When you think of a […]
Continue ReadingThe Chinese domain strategy of Walmart
Image courtesy of Walmart.com Apple has moved its Chinese iCloud data to China and India is considering a policy to require data to stay within its country. National governments across the world will likely impose requirements on local residence of local data as time goes on. The “one .com to rule them all” domain strategy […]
Continue ReadingWhy do Chinese companies like acronym domains?
China is the largest owner of liquid domains according to the quarterly market report by GGRG.com. These are very short .com domains such as LL (letter-letter), NN (number-number), and LN (letter-number) .com which can be sold at any time because of a large pool of ready buyers. In this article, I’ll focus on the acronym […]
Continue ReadingOne Critical Action to Take Before Starting a Blog
While settling down and preparing for the next day, I took a quick break to visit Domaining.com to discover any breaking domain industry news. If you’re not familiar with Domaining.com, it’s a curation of publishers and bloggers that produce newsworthy content in regards to the domain industry news. In fact, you’ll likely find a few […]
Continue ReadingFacebook, China, and Domains
He married a Chinese woman. He learned Chinese. And he connects with young Chinese. Mark Zuckerberg has made a lot of efforts to win friendship in China, including giving a talk completely in Mandarin at a top-notch Chinese university. Yet, Facebook is not in the Middle Kingdom. Well, it actually was in China – only […]
Continue ReadingEmoji Domains: Where Are They Now? 🤔
About a year or so ago, emoji domains were not red, but white hot and well on their way as a “riches in the niches” phenomenon. But as with everything in life, it’s good to stop, assess and take inventory from time to time in an effort to understand how much progress has or has […]
Continue ReadingIs New gTLD Financing a Match Made in Heaven?
Of course, financing domain names is nothing new under the sun. Domain leasing and financing certainly happens each and every week, if not on a daily basis. It’s not news to read about a person or company leveraging varying financing options to hopefully stake their claim to highly-valued virtual real estate. The question I pose […]
Continue ReadingWhy Domain Investors Should Consider Domain Development
There are countless carcasses littering the domain investing journey. Folks often enter domain investing thinking it’s nothing more than buying domains while sipping mai tai cocktails on a beach. And if not that image, then the image is that domain investors purchase domains at standard registration fees on Monday and flip them them for 5, […]
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