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A Creative but Difficult Domain Name

May 7, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

会玩旅行 (Hui Wan Lv Xing) offers a marketplace for tour groups to find Chinese-speaking driver/guide outside China. Currently, this service covers more than 1,000 cities in the world, helping Chinese tourists to enjoy their tour destinations without worrying about language problems. Booking is possible even just one day before departure. The company was founded in […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

Bulk Trading

May 5, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

Last year China introduced the world to bulk trading of domain names. The traditional approach is for investors to buy one or two good quality domain names at a time, and then wait for end user companies to buy the domain names in order to develop websites. However, bulk trading is about buying much lesser […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile, Domain trends

Focus on Meaning, Not Chip

May 4, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

翼鸥教育 (Yi Ou Jiao Yu) is an edtech startup. Its free online education program is proving so popular that the company has received a large amount of fresh funding to further expand its educational services. Its corporate website is EEO.cn. If you are a Chip domain investor, you may discount the value of this name […]

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Chinese IDN Better Than Pinyin?

May 3, 2016 by Alvin Brown 6 Comments

While discussing the potential of Chinese IDN.IDN domain names on Namepros, a domain investor pointed out a fact that I overlooked — that the first Chinese IDN .中国 (China) was launched in 2010 but has almost no impact on the domain market. Because of this fact, some argue that Chinese IDNs don’t have much future […]

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Being Creative in Domain Names

May 1, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

When it comes to selecting domain names, Chinese startups are creative. They have to. There is tremendous pressure to build a business on a .com domain name but a good .com name is very expensive. Due to the global demand for .com, acquiring a short and easy to remember .com name is almost impossible for […]

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Short and Exact Match are the Keys

April 30, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

An Hui Hua Mi Xin Xi Ke Ji You Xian Gong Si (安徽华米信息科技有限公司) was formed in 2013 between Xiaomi and an electronic company. Like many Internet startups in China, the company banked on new technologies and quickly made its presence felt in the wearable market. It powers Xiaomi’s popular M Bands fitness tracker and already […]

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Frank Schilling Going to China?

April 28, 2016 by Alvin Brown Leave a Comment

In my April 20 blog post “All A-list Names Will Be at World Domain Conference 2016?”, I talked about the the very long list of guests that the organizer of the conference has invited. Today, I just read a news article by Admin5.com which said that Frank Schilling was invited and now intends to participate […]

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XX.net sells for 690,000 Yuan ($106,191)

April 27, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Ename.cn reported thatXX.net sold for 690,000 Yuan or $106,191. In the same post they stated that QQB.com sold for 595,000 Yuan or $91,570. TLDinvestors contributor Kassey Lee noted, XX may mean 消息 (news), 信息 (message), 学校 (school), and 形象 (image). QQB may mean 跷跷板 (see-saw), 曲奇饼 (cookies), 亲亲宝 (kiss kiss baby), and 抢钱宝 (grab money […]

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Filed Under: 2 letter domains, 3 letter domains, Chinese Domain Names

Buy a House Using 6N .com

April 24, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

This is an interesting story published on eName. A domain investor named Yao ZHANG bought a nice house using no money but 400 of his 6N .com domain names. It started a year ago when ZHANG spent 2m CNY to buy the mobile phone number 15388888888. This made big news and he was interviewed on […]

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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Numerical Domains

Don’t Get Stuck in Chips

April 21, 2016 by Alvin Brown 3 Comments

I’ve said in many occasions that I don’t pay attention to the idea of ‘chips’ — domain names containing aeiouv. Instead, I try to evaluate each name on its own merits and its possibility to run a business. If you look at a short Chinese domain names only through the lens of ‘chips’, you may […]

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