discuss China's domain name industry

GuoYongan · Apr 21, 2016

I have to say that china's domain name industry is very important. Because of the difference of lingustic, some valueless domain name that in a english speaking man may have great value in china's domain name market. so english speaking investors should put eyes in china's market.

GuoYongan · Apr 27, 2016

Aspiring Billionaire said:
Hi GuoYongan.

In your opinion, would you say that there is a market in China for VR dot-coms? For example, VRabc.com or VR123.com? I ask specifically relating to the letters VR in the Chinese domains, because VR is an abbreviation for English words?

Thank you for your time.

Regards
Clint.

yes ,vr is very hot, but we'd like to put "vr" at the end of prefix,like 123vr.com.

Aspiring Billionaire · Apr 27, 2016

GuoYongan said:
yes ,vr is very hot, but we'd like to put "vr" at the end of prefix,like 123vr.com.

Thank you for your answer GuoYongan, that's very interesting to know. I personally would have guessed that "vr" at the beginning was better, but really glad o know that there's a market for it. Keep up the great work :D

Kassey Lee · Apr 27, 2016

Avtar629 said:
have things changed? I recall Kassey Lee mentioned that IDN.IDN is a definite competitor for Chinese numerics.

I said Chinese IDN.IDN vs Pinyin, not vs numerics. Short numerics are fine, and not likely be replaced by IDN.IDN. My blog post today "Chinese IDN Better Than Pinyin?" discusses this issue.

jagathks · Apr 27, 2016

Is mytld.cn and mytld.in are valuable.

NameYourself · Apr 27, 2016

@Kassey Lee @GuoYongan @Avtar629 I appreciate your input on the topic of IDNs. I invested heavily in Chinese IDN.com many years ago and cannot understand why they have not been adopted, will they ever be preferred? What is preventing people from wanting to use them?

I understand that pinyin is first typed on a standard keyboard and then a dropdown of sorts lets the user choose which Chinese character/symbol they would like to select. So my question is, if most people search this way, in Chinese characters, then why would they also not want an IDN.com for their website name. Wouldn't each term be more specific and clear than using numbers or LLLLs which can have a much more vague and broad meaning?

My other question is, would and IDN.com be preferred over and IDN.点看 (idn.idn)? Do IDNs have any future at all in China?

Thank you for your contributions to this topic.

GuoYongan · Apr 27, 2016

becouse there are not enough propaganda about IDN. most of chinese netizens don't know that IDN will work when they use it . and most of them have been be accustomed to the .com and .cn

GuoYongan · Apr 27, 2016

GuoYongan said:
becouse there are not enough propaganda about IDN. most of chinese netizens don't know that IDN would work when they use it . and most of them have been be accustomed to the .com and .cn

dordomai · Apr 27, 2016

NameYourself said:
@Kassey Lee @GuoYongan @Avtar629 I appreciate your input on the topic of IDNs. I invested heavily in Chinese IDN.com many years ago and cannot understand why they have not been adopted, will they ever be preferred? What is preventing people from wanting to use them?

I think that one of the problems is technical. It not just a preference or cultural issue.

If you are going to use IDN you have a lot of technical issues going along with them. Many third party websites don't display IDN as they should. So you have your brand being shown as xn--gzeu33 (example) Many social networks can not display them properly. How are you going to promote your brand there if you depend on other websites to make sure your brand is shown as it should be?

You have things like CMS and other software that you going to use on your server for your website. You can't count on these supporting IDN.

I think that alone would cause many programmers/developers to avoid them because it is generally not viewed as reliable and fully functional.

Some have stated that redirects could circumenvent this. I don't know how likely this would be adopted.

Personally I don't see brands building large websites on IDN anytime soon.

As I view it , at the moment they have potential as niche domains but they won't replace ASCII anytime soon. A lot of things would need to happen for that to change. IDN are not new technology. They have been out there for almost 20 years. I don't see why that should change overnight.

NameYourself · Apr 27, 2016

GuoYongan said:
becouse there are not enough propaganda about IDN. most of chinese netizens don't know that IDN will work when they use it . and most of them have been be accustomed to the .com and .cn

If they did know that IDNs worked, then would IDN be preferred over letters and numbers? Or is it more difficult to type a URL this way?

Also for the word 'hotels' for example, would 酒店.com or 酒店.点看 be better? .点看 is not yet launched, but assuming once it has which would be the best?

WhoaDomain.com · Apr 27, 2016

Hmm what do you think of this one? I found out that

Xnxs is pinyin acronym for virtual reality. So any value for xnxszg.com or too long? Translates as I think VRChina.com

WhoaDomain.com · Apr 27, 2016

Kassey Lee said:
I said Chinese IDN.IDN vs Pinyin, not vs numerics. Short numerics are fine, and not likely be replaced by IDN.IDN. My blog post today "Chinese IDN Better Than Pinyin?" discusses this issue.

My bad you are correct. Was posting on the move again sorry . you did say idn.idn vs pinyin

Chris Rice · Apr 27, 2016

GuoYongan said:
ok, in chinese language, there are four tones. which makes that one "ma" can corresponding to many chinese worlds. and that chinese is a kind of hieroglyph, one chinese word have one meaning. the same "ma" (mathor) and "ma"(horse) look samilar in chinese,"妈" "马"，but their meaning are very different.

Thanks for replying.

I am referring to PINYIN, not traditional Chinese.

Unless you include the accents (or 'tones') Ma could mean four different things (when spelled using Latin/English letters).

BasedBeyond · Apr 27, 2016

@GuoYongan Is the .cloud extension any good in China?

WhoaDomain.com · Apr 27, 2016

NameYourself said:
If they did know that IDNs worked, then would IDN be preferred over letters and numbers? Or is it more difficult to type a URL this way?

Also for the word 'hotels' for example, would 酒店.com or 酒店.点看 be better? .点看 is not yet launched, but assuming once it has which would be the best?

why would .点看 even be something someone thought of to create? it means "Point of view". I don't get it. unless Google Translated it wrong yet again.

NameYourself · Apr 28, 2016

It will be verisign's translit of .com in true IDN form. I've heard it translates poorly and will likely not be desired which is why I'm curious of your opinion @GuoYongan

Would 酒店.com or 酒店.点看 be most desirable? In other words even though .点看 translates poorly at least it is .com in true IDN.idn format. Or would the mixed, 酒店.com still be better?

supradomains.com · Nov 17, 2019

@Kassey Lee I've been reading a lot of threads on the chinese domain market. I find your replies really insightful. What do you think of the relevance of "y" and "de" in the chinese domain market. I tried using yabla and google translate-

I found out (though I'm not that sure) that "Y" is a chinese alphabet 了 (liǎo) which means 'To Know'
"de"- can mean moral(s), virtue, morality, favor, kindness

I'm really looking forward to hear your thoughts on this.

manpreet · Nov 17, 2019

@Kassey Lee @GuoYongan thanks for your inputs guys, I wanted to ask - how good are .cn domains with English keywords ?

Kassey Lee · Nov 18, 2019

supradomains.com said:
I found out (though I'm not that sure) that "Y" is a chinese alphabet

"y" is an acronym for many Pinyin words, such as Yun (云 = cloud), Yao (要 = want), and Yong (用 = use)

manpreet said:
how good are .cn domains with English keywords

English words are popular in corporate China, such as TenCent.com, SenseTime.com, and BabyTree.com. Some companies don't even have Chinese names. A good example is listed company VIPKid at VIPKid.com.

manpreet · Nov 19, 2019

Kassey Lee said:
"y" is an acronym for many Pinyin words, such as Yun (云 = cloud), Yao (要 = want), and Yong (用 = use)

English words are popular in corporate China, such as TenCent.com, SenseTime.com, and BabyTree.com. Some companies don't even have Chinese names. A good example is listed company VIPKid at VIPKid.com.

Thank you for your reply. I understand about TenCent.com, SenseTime.com, and BabyTree.com but what I meant was general keywords in .cn like Cars.cn or Mobiles.cn or Cards.cn, just for an example. Are English keywords with the .cn a good success there ?

Kassey Lee · Nov 19, 2019

My focus is .com, so maybe you can research the .cn domains by typing them into your browser and see if they are developed already.

Kassey Lee · Nov 19, 2019

(duplicate)

Kassey Lee · Nov 19, 2019

Cars.cn is developed

Kai W. · Nov 19, 2019

CN is a ccTLD with a large number of registrations, but it is not suitable for collection because it is not open to the public (you need to submit a certificate to the government before you can use it). So I won't buy any CN and IN,imo

supradomains.com · Nov 19, 2019

Kassey Lee said:
"y" is an acronym for many Pinyin words, such as Yun (云 = cloud), Yao (要 = want), and Yong (用 = use)

Wow! If that's the case, single letter domain ydot__ can be quite a steal. It's quite rare and unique. How do you think will chinese investors or end users (with relevant brands) respond to that?

Fortnite · Nov 19, 2019

Jiamijiaoyi.com - Don't know what it means but I think it sounds chinese

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