China's hunger for domain names has lifted all boats. What happens as the tide recedes? There's no doubt that China has had a profound impact on the domain name industry over the past 6-12 months. Chinese buyers have enriched people with short domain ... Continue Reading29 Comments
Why you shouldn’t go bananas over Banana.com domain name “sale”
· Domain SalesThere's a good reason to be skeptical of a $2 million banana.com domain sale. Last month there was a bit of a stir in the domain name industry about the Chinese buying one word English domain names for huge sums. A domain name auction in China ... Continue Reading23 Comments
How big is China? Big.
· Domain Sales57% of Domain Name Sales' revenue coming from China. This morning at NamesCon, Domain Name Sales VP of Sales Jeffrey Gabriel showed a slide with sales data from the past year: Wow. 2% of leads generating 57% of the dollar volume of sales. ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Zhuang Jia: Chinese Pump and Dump
· UncategorizedJoseph Peterson draws parallels between market manipulators in Chinese stock markets and the domain name market. An article just published by Bloomberg gives us an x-ray glimpse into a Chinese investment culture reliant on pump-and-dump schemes. The ... Continue Reading42 Comments
What if TLDs are Chinese?
· UncategorizedDo certain top level domain names have a Chinese meaning? We've often seen TLDs repurposed. For instance, .ME and .TV – originally the country codes of Montenegro and Tuvalu, respectively – are mainly understood as words. While .SI means Slovenia in ... Continue Reading11 Comments
Winners from China
· UncategorizedA look at some of the winners from the Chinese domain name boom, from last week's Domain Name Wire newsletter. Do you subscribe to the Domain Name Wire Newsletter? If you don't, here's what you're missing. This was published as part of the newsletter ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
China to enforce Real Name Verification on .Com Domain Names
· Policy & LawThe government of China is clamping down on registrants of .com domain names. Regulations that have prevented Chinese residents from using many new top level domain names will soon affect .com and .net domain name registrations, too. The rules will ... Continue Reading15 Comments
When the bubble bursts…
· UncategorizedWhat will drive the long-term value of short domain names? I'm ecstatic that Chinese buyers are snapping up short domain names. It's great for the resale market, it's great for registries (new and old) that are suddenly selling lots of registrations, ... Continue Reading13 Comments
How to not lose your shirt investing in domain names for China
· ServicesVideo explains what makes domains good -- and bad -- for the Chinese market. Allegravita, a consultancy for doing business in China that has worked with a number of domain name companies, has published three info-packed sessions from the DomainFest ... Continue Reading5 Comments
Scenes from a domain name auction in China
· Domain SalesThese are some of the Chinese domain name investors buying your domains. The domain name market in China is hot and is driving major price appreciation, especially in short domain names. What's the Chinese domain name community like? A lot like that ... Continue Reading12 Comments