strategy How I look at aeiouv04 in Chinese domain names

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Knowing what Chinese buyers like is important when, according to World Domain Conference 2016, China now accounts for more than 40% of the global sales of domain names. One debate that has been going on in the domain investment community is whether Chinese like domain names containing aeiouv04 or not, thus affecting their values.

Companies in China are looking for short, meaningful, and easy to remember domain names. Because of the scarcity in mainstream domain extensions (.com and .cn), they are willing to be creative by looking at all letters and numbers. In the same way, when I look at a domain name, I don’t use the aeiouv04 rule. Instead, I focus on finding meaning in the name...

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[London555]

We were told a while back by a well known domain blogger that re: our name 990v.com "the "v" kills it for a Chinese buyer" -well it sold last month and went straight to China.

 

[Shams]

That was stange from day one. V kills the name. If the name don't have any meaning. Which was assume that V don't have any meaning in chinese language
i scratch my head and think than how they will handle VR domains. Few months ago I sold a VR domain to an enduser is china and that's not all. I also sold many other a e i o u v domains to chinese domainers on ebay.