Kassey Lee discusses China's rise and what it means for domain investing. After listening to an interview with billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio (Ray Dalio: CHINA Town Hall 2020), I have started paying attention to what he says about China. ... Continue Reading9 Comments
7 ways to find contact email addresses for Chinese companies
· ServicesKassey Lee explains how you can find email addresses of Chinese companies for outbound domain sales purposes. I research end users in China every day, and part of the exercise involves finding email addresses of companies I'm interested in contacting. ... Continue Reading4 Comments
What domains do Chinese internet companies want to buy?
· UncategorizedKassey Lee looks at Chinse internet company domain name preferences. Edit Edit date and time You need to know your buyers if you want to sell your domains to China. Since internet companies lead the business world, it is worthwhile to study ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
What is a four-initial (4i) domain?
· UncategorizedYou call them Chips. The Chinese call them... In my last article, I gave an overview of Benmi, a site that aggregates domain sales data from Chinese marketplaces. When you visit the site, you may see the term "Four initial COM domain," as shown in ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
What these name choices should tell domain name investors
· UncategorizedChina is a market for your domain names. Even if they are English names. Common knowledge is that Chinese companies own Chinese brand names. Even foreign companies follow this rule when operating in China. For example, Amazon is Ya Ma Xun (亚马逊); ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Is Wechat.com registrar migration a harbinger of things to come in the China domain market?
· Domain RegistrarsChinese companies might move their domains from the United States. Domaingang.com reported on September 24 that WeChat.com has recently moved from the USA-based registrar MarkMonitor to the China-based eName. This happened amid the worsening ... Continue Reading4 Comments
You can still pick up Pinyin domains from the drops
· Expired DomainsGood quality Pinyin domains drop every day. I thought most meaningful Pinyin are already owned by Chinese investors because there are over 900 million internet citizens and a large pool of investors in China. These Chinese domain investors even ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Why are two letter domains so sought after in China?
· UncategorizedKassey Lee explores why two letter domains are valuable to Chinese companies. Actually, I found the answer in a comment made by Jeff Sass (CMO of .club) on the September 7 DomainSherpa show -- even though he was not referring directly to ... Continue Reading2 Comments
English-based domains DO have a market in China
· UncategorizedKassey Lee shows some more examples of Chinese companies using English-language domains. It thrills me almost every day to come across well-funded startups in China using English brand names and domains. The more I read about them, the more I am ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Is .com king in China?
· UncategorizedBy registration volume? No. But that's not the only measure. We often see the expression ".com is king" which usually refers to the situation in the United States. Sometimes I also see this term used inside China. But is .com really No. 1 in ... Continue Reading8 Comments
