.cn value

[chimaera]

What kind of domain would make .cn valuable? Reason I ask is that I saw the following on ebay earlier for $24 and no bids ...

brown.cn
gray.cn
genie.cn

And a few others. I was very tempted, thinking that they must be worth that at least ... but then got cold feet, not knowing too much about .cn domains.

 

[Joseph]

.com.cn is bigger in china =)

 

[floatingworld]

.cn is seen on business advertising hoardings in Beijing as much as .com.cn
..the names you saw on ebay are junk. Go for something relevant to the Chinese economy.

 

[fonzie_007]

maybe commie.cn would be worth something...

 

[Nam]

It need time to be more popular and it will go faster if registration fee is lower

 

[Sarcle.com]

It need time to be more popular and it will go faster if registration fee is lower

It's to late for english.cn your better off getting idn.cn right now.

 

[cache]

so you think idn.cn is more valuable than singleenglishword.cn?

It's to late for english.cn your better off getting idn.cn right now.

 

[AmD950]

A lot of Chinese knows existence of .com.cn but not the second level ones...
And most of them prefers .com instead of .cn

I can't see .cn will go rocket high in the coming future.

 

[duskdawn]

.cn is going up. All LLL.cn and LLL.com.cn are taken.
http://www.cnnic.com.cn/html/Dir/2003/09/01/0807.htm
Numbers, Acronyms of Pinyin, Simple English words are more welcome.

commie.cn

For instance, gczy.cn, the acronym of Pinyin for 共产主义（Communism）has more value than communism.cn, however no one will recognize what "commie" is since it is beyond major Chinese English level.
I know it's a joke but just want to give you some image for this. Since nowadays "communisms" are way too old to compete with "free market" and "economy".
When it comes to prices, it is very cheap to register your .cn at Chinese registrars, better with resellers for $5-6/per year. I will setup a reseller site especially for English speakers to reg and manage .cn when I go back to China the next year. I see some potentials here.

 

[Australia]

maybe commie.cn would be worth something...

im hoping shoppingblog.cn and businessblog.cn will be worth something one day

i really think english .cn's will do well in the next few years. i have about 90 and most get resonable traffic.

heres a sample

beer.net.cn
biosecurity.cn
nanosecurity.cn
lpg.com.cn
camerashop.cn
casino888.cn
catholicchurch.cn
casinochina.cn
3gphones.cn
chinacasino.cn
computershop.cn
escorts.com.cn
digitalphotography.cn
estateagent.cn
hybrids.cn
laptops.com.cn
nanotechnology.com.cn
mobilephones.com.cn
oled.com.cn
phoneshop.cn
propertyrentals.cn
publicrelations.cn
realestateagent.cn
rsvp.cn
soccer.net.cn
space.org.cn
supercenter.cn
teen.net.cn
teens.com.cn
telephones.com.cn
tourismchina.cn
webcentral.cn
webdesigners.com.cn
wi-max.cn
mobilephones.com.cn
pharmacy.org.cn
photography.org.cn
luxuryhotels.com.cn
basketball.net.cn
blogosphere.cn
cameraphone.cn

keywords will do well :imho:

 

[Ben]

Where's a good place to register .com.cn domains?

 

[Macke]

i paid like 29 usd when regging .cn when it was launched. then it sank to 22-23 with the firm cnnames. still not seeing much traffic for domains like:
generic.cn
beijing-hotels.com.cn
hotelsbeijing.cn
and I even let some expire, like hongkongapartment.cn.. hehe.

Any chineese or anybody else who see any value in the hotel domains for the 2008 olympics??? I'd consider to sell them in a year from now maybe, then I guess the value will be higher.

Anyway, I do belive in the .CN a lot, more then the 3rd level anyway. long term, the 2nd level will win..

Those of you who belive that .com.cn is BETTER then .cn, think again. There were in december, according to http://www.cnnic.com.cn/html/Dir/2003/12/13/2020.htm, 588748 registered .CN and only 385847 registered .com.cn. The .CN are increasing fast and will continue to do so.