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 […]
Continue ReadingUsing Another Domainer’s Portfolio Against Them
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 […]
Continue ReadingFocus on Meaning, Not Chip
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 […]
Continue ReadingChinese IDN Better Than Pinyin?
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 […]
Continue ReadingBeing Creative in Domain Names
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 […]
Continue ReadingTwo of the Ten single digit .tv look to be on the move
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 […]
Continue ReadingShort and Exact Match are the Keys
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 […]
Continue ReadingGo Daddy Auction Picks 4-30-16
Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-30-16 Powered by ExpiredDomains.com YouDigital.com is one of the two word .coms I like today. Currently around $375. Should go higher towards the auction close. If you are interested in .biz there are a lot of one word .biz on the list. Klir.com is an expired auction over $575 currently. Full […]
Continue ReadingAn Interview with NamePros Admin, Eric Lyon
Eric Lyon is the Admin at Namepros.com and he took a little time to have a chat with me about Namepros, having a baby and getting married. *Disclosure: I have been a moderator at Namepros for over a decade. 1. What got you interested in the domain industry? Eric: It actually wasn’t until after I […]
Continue ReadingDNBolt publishes more BrandBucket Sales Data –
DNBolt.com published a table of BrandBucket sales for the last three months. In a post on Namepros they wrote: The table displays 3 months worth of sold domains at any given point of time. Dnbolt has been collecting Brandbucket sold domains since late 2015 and has learnt a lot during the process. After listening to […]
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