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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

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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Filed Under: Domaining 101

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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Filed Under: Chinese Domain Names, Coreile

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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Go Daddy Auction Picks 4-30-16

April 30, 2016 by Raymond Hackney Leave a Comment

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 […]

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An Interview with NamePros Admin, Eric Lyon

April 29, 2016 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

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 […]

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