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% […]

Wo Wo Tuan (窝窝团) started in 2010 as an O2O ecommerce site on 55tuan.com. 55 rhymes with Wo Wo (窝窝) and Tuan (团) is a Pinyin word. The name means a place where a group of people is sheltered. Right from the start, the company had a big plan to go national and then list […]

I generally don’t like long numeric domain names. However, in any numeric category I can often find a small number of names that have Chinese meanings. Such meanings allow end user companies to turn the domain names into websites for commercial purposes. So, just for a little bit of fun, I have extracted from my […]

Amid the enthusiasm of finding meanings to domain names, have you wondered how names of non-Chinese companies and people are handled in China? First, look at some famous brands. Apple’s Chinese name is 苹果, which is obtained via translation where its meaning remains the same in Chinese. Similarly, Microsoft becomes 微软 (translation). On the other […]

You know 神州专车(Shen Zhou Zhuan Che) is not a small player if you read that the startup just received a 20 billion CNY line of credit from a bank in China. Shen Zhou Zhuan Che offers chauffeur-driven car hire for business users. Launched only in January, 2015, the comapny already received Series A and then […]