Tag Archives: China

Mon 10th November 2014
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China’s Domain Name Market with Simon Cousins – DNW Podcast #6 - Capitalize on China’s strong domain name market. China’s appetite for domain names is booming. A quarter of Domain Holdings’ sales last quarter were to China, and Verisign credits the country with bolstering .com growth. How can you capitalize on this market opportunity? In this episode, TLD Registry CMO Simon Cousins gives a crash course on the Chinese domain name market. You’ll learn why certain combinations of numbers are worth a lot and others aren’t. ... read more ...
Thu 25th March 2010
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.Cn Pullout is a Business Decision, Not Political [Updated] - Public misunderstands reasons for .cn pullout. [Update: see comments from Go Daddy Group Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Christine Jones.] I really don’t think Go Daddy was trying to pull off a publicity stunt yesterday with its testimony before a Congressional Commission yesterday. GoDaddy announced it was no longer offering China’s .cn domain name, and clearly laid out the hassle it would have to undertake to continue offering the domain name. But ... read more ...
Wed 24th March 2010
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Go Daddy Dropping .Cn, But Not China - Go Daddy drops .cn, but Chinese can still register domain names at the registrar. In a hearing before the Congressional-Executive Commission on China today in Washington, Go Daddy Group Executive Vice-President and General Counsel Christine Jones explained that the company will no longer offer .cn domain names under strict requirements imposed by China. On January 5, .Cn registry CNNIC announced without warning that non-Chinese registrars were no longer allowed to ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2010
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How Long Until China Confiscates Google.Cn Domain Name? - The Google.cn domain name is in jeopardy. If there’s one lesson learned about country code domain names, it’s that you have little protection as a domain registrant. With Google announcing that it will stop censoring its Google.cn search results, it is basically asking for the Chinese government to shut it down. China can take a number of measures to block access to Google in China. One of the simplest steps is to just confiscate the Google.cn domain name. ... read more ...