We are pleased here at TheDomains.com to welcome Simon Cousins as a contributor. Simon Cousins (夏明) is a co-founder and CEO at Allegravita, a boutique PR and strategic communications agency in Beijing, Hong Kong, New York City and Los Angeles. In addition to his group leadership duties, he serves as creative director.

Simon will provide readers with a current and realistic picture of what is going on in the Chinese domain market.

Allegravita is arguably the world’s most experienced specialist China consultancy to the international domain name industry, having been contracted by numerous industry players in China (including .ART, CentralNic, .CEO, .CLUB, the Domain Name Association, Famous Four, .FANS, .GLOBAL, Houghton Richards, ICM, .LA, .LUXURY, MMX, NameJet, Neustar/.CO/.BIZ, Radix, Rightside, Sedo, .SHOP, TLD Registry, Top Level Design, the Trademark Clearinghouse, Yijie.com, and ZDNS/KNET. Allegravita is one-third of the promoter team of DOMAINfest.Asia and serves on the China advisory board of HostingCon.

You call follow Simon on Twitter at https://twitter.com/simon_cousins