Why Chinese companies are registering domains with 56 in them. While conducting end user research recently, I came across a number of four-character domains containing the number 56. What is so special about 56? Well, 56 rhymes with some Pinyin ... Continue Reading2 Comments
A quick tip for Chinese end user research
· Domain SalesChinese company's website doesn't resolve? Try again with www. Here's a quick tip for you when researching end users in China. Be sure to prefix a .cn or .com.cn domain with "www". Otherwise, you may miss out an important Chinese company. This ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Chinese registrars are very active in new top level domains
· Domain RegistrarsKassey Lee analyzes how Chinese registrars account for a large portion of new top level domain registrations. New top level domain names, such as .best, .rich, and .guru, began rolling out at the end of 2013. According to nTLDstats.com, there ... Continue Reading5 Comments
China has 21 of top 50 global sites based on Alexa Rank
· UncategorizedChina has a large share of the most-trafficked sites on the web. Alexa.com gives you a big picture of the most popular websites in the world. If you go to the Alexa.com/topsites page, you'll get the top 50 sites -- or the top 500 for paid ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Single letter domains in China
· UncategorizedHere's who owns single letter .Cn domain names. Corporate China loves short domains. Over the years I have seen many Chinese companies upgrade to short domains such as JD.com, Le.com, VIP.com, and DJI.com. How about single letter domains? Even ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Are domains containing “4” really bad?
· UncategorizedThe number four has a bad connotation, but also some others. I regularly post messages on LinkedIn to share what I see in the Chinese domain market. A few days ago, I wrote about several 4 character domains, including 44QP.com, with 5-figure asking ... Continue Reading9 Comments
These recent four-letter domain sales are interesting from a Chinese perspective
· Domain SalesKassey Lee explains why these recent domain purchases would be interesting to Chinese companies. Among the 4L .com sold in February as reported by Namebio, I've found the following domains interesting from a Chinese perspective. ZZGC.com sold ... Continue Reading6 Comments
Three steps to Chinese end user research
· Domain SalesKassey Lee explains how he finds end users in China. A reader asked me recently to do an end user search for one of his domains. Instead, I decided to share my method in this article so that other investors can also try. For this exercise, I'll use ... Continue Reading2 Comments
These Chinese companies use English brands and domains only
· UncategorizedNo Pinyin here. There is a misconception that corporate China only buys Pinyin domains. That is not true. Chinese companies do use English domains, and, in some cases, they use only English brands and domains. Here are some examples. Fiture ... Continue Reading2 Comments
I want c-suite domains
· Uncategorized"51" domains can be used in many ways. No, it's not really me wanting to acquire domains related to c-suite (titles starting with "c") executives. It is about such domains starting with the prefix "51". I have already written about such domains ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment