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Originally Posted by lipps

Very nice domain name but if you actually owned China.cn and Bejing.cn then those domains are quite valuable. I am sure there is a place for the com.cn domains but I honestly dont know the overall acceptance of the domains in Cn.
Sub domains like com.xx are frequently overlooked by the search spiders and get little to no type in traffic.
I hate to say it but they may have limited value due to the sub domain extension.

These are .cn.coms and aren't a real ccTLD. cn.com is just another .com domain owned by a private company called CentralNic. They sell subdomains like example.cn.com to people

NOT .com.cn which are a part of the .cn ccTLD's architecture and controlled by the .cn registry.

If you heard about web.com, they used to do the same thing that Centralnic's doing with .cn.com. People could buy [sub]domains under .web.com, like example.web.com from them. Recently, they decided to take back all the .web.coms they sold.

If you bought one of the names and worse, if you developed a business on one of the domains, you were out of luck. Your domain, example.web.com would stop working and all your customers that only know to find you there would be lost. JUST because the company that owns Web.com decided to stop providing the subdomains...

Not that ICANN's much better.