Regarding CHIPS and the Chinese ‘dislike’ of vowels in domain names.
The domains listed below, are considered some of the top Chinese websites.
Lots of vowels.
Baidu.com
Taobao.com
ohu.com
weibo.com
youku.com
soso.com
sogou.com
etao.com
iqiyi.com,
hao123.com...