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any good?

beer.hk
diy.hk

your thoughts on this one please?

also have

hkd.hk (hong kong currency)
sushi.hk (hong kongs national food)

thanks
 
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I thought beer.hk might raise a few smiles, obviously very quiet on here today?
 
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I think i like beer.hk. Where do u get hk domains frum?
 
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beer.hk I wouldn't recommend with this extension. too generic.
diy? in hk? nobody does diy in HK!
 
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I assume Japanese people drink beer? are there any big Japanese beers out there?
 
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.... .hk is not japanese people. Humanities101.info is available.
 
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Very funny, I did kind of realise that but didnt expect anyone to say anything, apologies - but well spotted!
 
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I like sushi.hk the most!Where did you reg.hk?
I have anice idea in mind!
 
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.hk names have limited speculative vale for a number of reasons.
The population is less than 7M so there is a small domestic market.
HK has a high level of Internet sophistication. Many people in HK were grabbing great .coms long before they were worth big money.
The .hk extension has always been associated with small local companies -- in part because all the big guys grabbed their .coms a long time ago.
Until recently you could only register a .com.hk, and you had to be a HK company to do it. Owners of these have first rights to the .hk. If a local company wanted a .hk they got dibs on it years ago.
.hk names can be registered in Chinese characters. Regardless of what any hypemeisters may tell you, everyone in HK does not speak English. In fact a lot don't. For small local business a Chinese name is probably better than an English one. Combine that with my points above and things don't look too bright.
As a result, even though beer.hk is a great name I couldn't see anyone paying more than $500 for it. They'd probably just pay regfee for hkbeer.com.
I don't see much of a market for DIY in the sense of DIY, but if you hang on to it until a company called Dai Ip Yeung becomes successful and wasn't to prepare for an IPO they'd probably pay you a similar fee.
Same goes for hkd.hk. People don't say “HKD” like they say “dollar”, “pound”, “yen, etc. so the currency aspect of it isn't all that great.
Sushi is probably the best name of the lot. Despite the fact that it is beer, not sushi, that's the national dish of HK there are probably more sushi chains than there are of breweries and distributors. Might not be worth more but certainly an easier sale.
 
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Thanks Primacomputer, a great honest and informative response. I will have to park at Sedo and see what the traffic is like, I have regged a few more, so when I post them on here look forward to your response.

Does anybody know of any .hk sales yet? large or small?
 
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I haven't heard of any sales, big or small. Another problem is that hassles of transferring. Paperwork is involved, and there is a HK$500 (US$65) transfer fee as well as a HK$200 ($26) extra year of registration. This basically tacks $90 on top of any sale. There won't be a low cost market for these with rules like that.

Let us know how the traffic at Sedo turns out. Id be really curious to see.
 
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vichousefc said:
any good?

beer.hk
diy.hk

your thoughts on this one please?

also have

hkd.hk (hong kong currency)
sushi.hk (hong kongs national food)

thanks
beer.hk is very nice.

sushi is the national food of Hong Kong? I thought it was Japanese.
 
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yeah.. its japanese actually. But its still a good domain. Did you get inspired from Casino.hk which was a few thousand $?
 
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Casino.hk isn't sold yet. I'm considering a bid at the moment but probably will wait some more as most ppl tell me to.

But .hk are cool names. The coming years more foreign companies will land there and there will be more english speaking ppl around. Chinese is a very difficult language to learn (spoken and written), so there will be a market for foreigners locally.

Also since china's export in general is growing they slowly start to realize that english websites are necessary to promote their business abroad.
For those owning an english .cn or .hk name, I think this could be a good thing.
 
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