Allegravita a leading expert consultancy on the Chinese domain name industry published an article about changes to the Chinese naming system. It appears that Under .CN and .中国, China’s ccTLD (in English and Chinese respectively), there are now officially established second level domains (2LDs) available to registrants. 2LDs under .CN and .中国 come in two broad categories: “Category 2LDs”, and … [Read more...]
Seller of CB.CN Pays 1million Yuan to buy it back
Some recent sales reported on by Ename.cn show that CB.cn was bought back by the person who sold the domain last year. The domain was reportedly sold for mid six figure Yuan and now has been purchased for one million Yuan. Emotional attachment was the given reason for the repurchase. Thanks to Kassey Lee for translating the Ename.cn stories. Some other sales include Huan.cn, QDW.com and … [Read more...]
27.CN sells for seven figures CNY
27.com hit a high bid of $1,510,702 and failed to sell this week on NameJet. 27.CN has managed to sell for seven figures CNY. The news was reported on Admin5.com. The sale took place on A5.net. The domain was registered in 2003. Kassey Lee from Coreile.com translated, 27.cn sold for 7 figures CNY on A5.net platform. 27 may mean 爱妻 (beloved wife), 爱钱 (love money), 爱吃 (love eating), 爱情 … [Read more...]
Google To Blacklist All Digital Certificates from CNNIC
ZDNet took a look at Google and their black listing all digital certificates issued by the organization that manages the .cn extension. The article goes on to discuss what steps Firefox may take with regards to CNNIC. From the article: A recent alarm over a mis-issued digital certificate for several Google domains has resulted in Google blacklisting China's main certificate … [Read more...]
Baby.CN Sells for $410,872
NiceNic.net did a post on their site about a another group of big Chinese sales. These were led by Baby.CN which sold for $410,872 USD. Baby.cn was the highest selling domain name at 2.53 million cny(US$410,872); QiLu.com ended in bidding 1.98 million cny(US$321,552) and ranked second to Baby.cn, QiLu is another name for "Shangdong", a big province of China; the highest bid for ShunFeng.com was … [Read more...]
NiceNic releases February Chinese Auction Results – 126.CN sells for $110,432
Nicenic.net put out a post today about some recent Chinese names that sold at auction. These were names that were not reserved by CNNIC. The first number is the sale price in Chinese Yuan, for the top 10 sales I converted to US Dollars. The conversion rate of roughly 1Chinese Yuan = .1624 USD 126.cn 680,000 $110,432 rose.cn 480,000 $77,952 ku.cn 234,000 … [Read more...]
22.CN Joins SedoMLS Continuing the Network’s Asian Expansion
Sedo announced a few minutes ago that 22.cn joined their SedoMLS. As demand for domains in Asia grows this is certainly a smart decision to keep building their network with Asian registrars. Recent auctions for premium .CN domains previously reserved by CNNIC have shown demand is strong in the region. 22.cn Joins SedoMLS, Continuing the Network’s Asian Expansion Sedo, the world’s largest … [Read more...]