Posts belonging to Category 'International Domain Names'

KC’s China CCTLD Update

The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Recently KC spotted the following news about the progress of China’s CCTLD process ============= Separately, the ICANN Board approved two simultaneous delegation requests to proceed to the String Delegation step of the fast track process. China requested simultaneous delegation of simplified and traditional [...]

Chinese IDN ccTLD

Exciting news! ===== ICANN passes resolution to China’s IDN ccTLD applications Sources close to this matter disclosed that ICANN aims to approve “.China” as early as April.

Reason For Optimism

According to Chinese news this month, China has suspended ALL oversea (incl HK, Macau, and Taiwan) registration of .cn and .中国. Within China, while the policy is still confusing, it’s likely registration will be limited to companies only. So company registration copy and company seal are required. Also, rumors are flying that the government is [...]

The Next Big Thing

This caption from an article on IDNblog is quite revealing and informative. “The value of keyword-rich domains will only become apparent over time to locals. Never forget how alienating ASCII domain names have been to many around the world for the last decade. IDN.IDN will start to change that, but it will be a gradual [...]

This Weeks Top 10 Searches On Baidu

1. 火影忍者漫画 2. 宫心计大结局 3. windows7 4. 单亲妈妈全集 5. 蜗居剧情 6. 蔡妍 7. 迪拜危机 8. 嘻哈包袱铺 9. 图瓦卢 10. 沂蒙电视剧

Some Recent Domain Sales

Russia.com $1,500,000 Dominio.com $450,000 64.com $89,000 Gameland.com $55,000 QQ.net $42,812 Billets.com $43,035 Ort.de $35,938 Dental.net $27,500 Lodging.co.uk $19,873 Thesan.com $18,500 Are you going to get some of this kind of action when the Chinese and Japanese IDN’s are available? How will you know what you have or what to get?

Weekly top 10 keywords Searched on Baidu.com

1 错爱2 2 单亲妈妈 3 五十玫瑰 4 叶倩彤 5 王紫菲 6 甲流变种病毒 7 陈鸿烈 8 故梦 9 胡静 10 招商证券

Whats In A Name?

The .com English version of this name sold for $7.5 million US. The .com English version of this domain name sold for $1.5million Us dollars The .com English version of this domain name sold for $3million US dollars Would you like to see what the whole list looks like. Not just in Chinese either….We have [...]

Don’t Be A PinYin Fool.

As the release of IDN’s approach many people will be wondering what’s all the hooha. Well the hooha is this, have you ever tried reading a language in it’s romanized phoenetics? It’s not pretty. Let me give you an example, if you do not speak Hebrew and you picked up a phoneticized Hebrew prayer book, [...]

ICANN Goes Global in Domain Names

The Internet authority talks about what will happen as domain names move beyond the Latin alphabet. For the last decade, ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, has been talking about opening up the Internet to languages and characters beyond English and the Latin alphabet. Now ICANN is making good on its talk, [...]