Chinese firms score 12 of the top 100 names in the 2016 Top 100 Most Valuable Global Brands released recently by Millward Brown and WPP. Since my interest is always domain name, I want to know what kind of domain names these 12 Chinese companies are using for the Chinese consumers. To get this information, […]

In China, people who own domain names are considered very smart, but this is not always true. Suppose you registered a domain name a year ago. One day someone who claims to be the sales director of a domain brokerage firm calls you. He says that you have a very good domain name and he […]

A domain investor recently sent me a list of Pinyin .com names and asked me to find buyers for him. Unfortunately, I’m not a broker so I can’t help much in this case. However, here’s a simple tip that you can try and find potential buyers. I’ll use YFW.com which I talked about in yesterday’s […]

The difference in clear. As reported by eName, the auction in the 2016 Global Domain Industry Summit held in Hangzhou, China brought in over 300m CNY of domain sales. That is about 46m USD! I don’t remember if I’ve come across any auction sales of such magnitude, so I did some checking of old news […]

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 […]