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Verisign Top Trending Keywords for April include Prince and Guru

May 10, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

Verisign is out with their Top 10 trending keywords for April. Bot was the top keyword in .com and loans in .net. Prince was fourth on the .com list. Guru was the only keyword on both .com and .net. Top 10 Keywords Registered in April 2016

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This Corporate Website Uses an 8N .com. Why?

May 9, 2016 by Alvin Brown 2 Comments

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 […]

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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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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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Using Another Domainer’s Portfolio Against Them

May 4, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 7 Comments

So about six months ago a reader emailed me about a domain he owned that received an unsolicited offer. He told me he could not give me the exact domain but that it was a brandable two word .com. He wanted to know how much he should counter ? I did not know the guy […]

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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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Two of the Ten single digit .tv look to be on the move

April 30, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 4 Comments

Back in February I wrote about an ex Mike Berkens name 2.tv being sold by Go Daddy to Sheng Wang. The sale was reported on Ename.cn and it was said to be in the high six figure yuan range. It looks like 4.tv which Mike Berkens purchased for $5,555 in April 2010 at the same […]

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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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