Hong Kong Domain names

[faisj]

Hi everyone,

Where do you register your: .hk ?
and does anyone know the honk kong market.

Do they really use there own tld or are they more .com users?

king regards,

Faizal

 

[vichousefc]

I register them at asiadns.com

Dont know much about the market, there have been a couple of big sales and I sold restaurants.hk for about £2,000

 

[HcDomains]

I think .com is more perfered in any community

 

[Findacodder]

I have arcades.hk
but dont know what to do with it

 

[SnagDomain]

.hk

I have venturecapital.hk - seems like a great keyword/extension combo, but so far no offers.

 

[Charley]

I sold restaurants.hk for about £2,000

Where did you sell it off?

 

[freddy]

they use .com.hk (restricted to locals) and .hk (unrestricted)
I do not agree that .com is the prefered TLD everywhere. ccTLD´s are the prefered ones inside the countries. But in a lot countries you have restrictions or the ccTLD´s are to expesive. Like in HongKong x-times more as a .com.
I have only 1 it´s wimax.hk, it has some traffic....

 

[vichousefc]

I sold restaurants.hk at Sedo - for some reason it wasnt listed in the sales chart.

 

[faisj]

How was the traffic?

(I am still wondering if people in Hong Kon really use the .hk tld)

 

[vichousefc]

The traffic wasnt great - infact it was minimal.

Yes people in Hong Kong do use .hk.

 

[gazzip]

There's only 3 sales listed at - dnsaleprice.com

Casino hk $15,000
Green hk $3,000
OnlinePoker hk $4,450

I must admit I would try typing in domainname.hk first for some reason ! probably because hong kong is so well known as hk too.

I lived there for 3 years a long time ago - Nice place

.

 

[Gerrit]

Nice place until China got hold of it. In theory there's the "two systems, one country" system which guarantees the inexistance of capital punishment (which I find very important), which guarantees freedom of speech, and which guarantees a certain special semi-independent status. But I don't trust it enough if China will actually respect these agreements 100%.

In the same way I have my doubts about the .HK extention:
- who guarantees it will remain in existance for many more years and that it won't be swallowed by .CN soon?
- who guarantees that the Chinese government doesn't do censorship and controls on sites using .HK ?

I would be a bit sceptic, but maybe I'm over-paranoid :ghost:

 

[Charley]

Casino hk $15,000

OnlinePoker hk $4,450

This sounds surprising to me , I guess the ASIAN countries dont have casinos or poker, but still the domain TLD's sell ....

What is the CATCH ?

 

[fab]

There are still very few .hk active websites. As .hk is relatively newer than .com.hk.

Local companies prefer .com.hk more. While international companies prefer .com.
They use subdomain hk.blahblahblah.com instead of blahblahblah.hk.

 

[kam]

I am the owner of DomainName.hk :hehe:

Please let me know if you interested in it.

Kam

There's only 3 sales listed at - dnsaleprice.com

Casino hk $15,000
Green hk $3,000
OnlinePoker hk $4,450

I must admit I would try typing in domainname.hk first for some reason ! probably because hong kong is so well known as hk too.

I lived there for 3 years a long time ago - Nice place

.

 

[floatingworld]

Nice place until China got hold of it. In theory there's the "two systems, one country" system which guarantees the inexistance of capital punishment (which I find very important), which guarantees freedom of speech, and which guarantees a certain special semi-independent status. But I don't trust it enough if China will actually respect these agreements 100%.

In the same way I have my doubts about the .HK extention:
- who guarantees it will remain in existance for many more years and that it won't be swallowed by .CN soon?
- who guarantees that the Chinese government doesn't do censorship and controls on sites using .HK ?

I would be a bit sceptic, but maybe I'm over-paranoid :ghost:

The idea that HK was a democracy paradise until 1997 is just plain silly. There are no guarantees in life. .HK domains are fine as long as they have some direct relationship to the HK economy so it is useful to have some direct knowledge of the place (.......yes I have)

 

[wot]

This sounds surprising to me , I guess the ASIAN countries dont have casinos or poker, but still the domain TLD's sell ....

What is the CATCH ?

You mean Asian places like Macau /Macao that has a bigger turnover in gambling revenue than Las Vegas :?

 

[cache]

yes, macau is already bigger than las vegas. But macau does not use .hk

 

[wot]

yes, macau is already bigger than las vegas. But macau does not use .hk

Macao.hk

Blackjack.mo.cn

Baccarat.mo.cn

OnlineCasino.mo.cn

:hi:

 

[SKG]

Macao.hk

Blackjack.mo.cn

Baccarat.mo.cn

OnlineCasino.mo.cn

:hi:

Nice names Wot. I am not sure if everyone here understands the impact Macau will have. You do and I do.

This year I have sold:

OnlinePoker dot hk
OnlinePoker dot sg
Online-Casino dot hk in escrow at the moment

Each for mid X,XXX to high X,XXX USD