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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]