Tag Archives: .cn

Fri 3rd April 2015
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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 authority. Google is blacklisting all digital certificates from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the ... read more ...
Tue 18th March 2014
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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 1.06 million cny(US$172,144) and ShunFeng is a famous express company in China.Other interesting domain ... read more ...
Fri 28th February 2014
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NiceNic releases Feb 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      $38,001 Lz.cn          222,000      $36,053 Lx.com.cn    188,000 $30,531 173.cn      ... read more ...
Fri 24th January 2014
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22.CN Joins SedoMLS Continuing a 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 domain marketplace and monetization provider, today announced that Chinese registrar 22.cn has joined the ... read more ...
Mon 20th January 2014
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CM.CN leads Premium .CN Auction Selling for $176,103 - NiceNic.net posted the latest results for the English word domain .cn domain auctions along with the Premium .CN domain auctions. These were domains previously reserved by CNNIC. The current exchange rate: 1 CNY = 0.165240 USD See below the latest 2014 Premium .CN domain sales list and their final bidding prices in CNY: cm.cn    1,066,000one.cn    1,004,000shop.cn    1,002,000 me.cn    920,000 dj.cn    824,000 ys.cn    810,000 name.cn    762,000 Ly.cn    758,000 tao.cn   ... read more ...
Tue 29th May 2012
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China reopens .cn to individuals, though registrars might be delayed to follow - Individuals can now register .cn domains, but domain registrars may still be cautious about offering the domains. After clamping down on .cn domain registrations a few years ago, China is beginning to open up its country code top level domain again. Yesterday China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the registry for .cn domain names, announced that registration would again be available to individuals instead of just businesses. CNNIC announced restrictions ... read more ...
Tue 29th June 2010
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Verify your .Cn Email Address in 15 Days or You Might Lose your Domain - CNNIC wants you to verify your email address, like, today. This may sound like a really bad phishing scheme, but it’s coming from a legitimate source. RRPproxy is reporting that all owners of China’s .cn domain names are receiving an email notice to verify their registrant information. Failure to respond within 15 days may mean your domain name is processed according to “relevant provisions of the Registry”, which RRPproxy says means the domain name could ... read more ...
 
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China Puts Domain Registrars in Tough Spot, Again - CNNIC reverses role of registry and registrar, and communicates poorly to boot. [Update 7/1: Go Daddy is sending out an email to its .cn customers today, which also links to CNNIC’s notice.] Imagine if VeriSign sent an email to the all .com registrants asking them to click a link to verify they have the correct email address.* If you didn’t respond within 15 days, your domain name was subject to deletion. Sounds crazy, but this is the latest threat from China ... read more ...
Thu 13th May 2010
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China’s .Cn Domain Name Loses 39% of Registrations in 4 Months - No surprise: .cn falls. It should really come as no surprise. As I predicted a couple months ago, China’s crackdown on the .cn domain name has led to a precipitous drop in the number of registered .cn domain names. Data from HosterStats.com shows that the registered base of .cn domain names has dropped 39% in the first four months of the year, from 13,459,133 at the end of 2009 to just 8,254,681 at the end of April 2010. The drop is due to a number of changes ... read more ...
Wed 24th February 2010
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China’s .Cn to Quickly Lose Status as Top Country Code Domain Name - From “anything goes” to “nothing goes”, changes to .Cn registration enforcement will reduce the number of .cn domain names. China’s domain name strategy has always perplexed me. For a country known for censoring just about everything, I found it odd that the country was essentially giving away .Cn domain names for about 14 cents. The low cost catapulted China above Germany for the most registered country code top level domain name, a status that China ... read more ...
Mon 18th January 2010
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China May Re-Open Individual Registration of .Cn Domain Names - CNNIC plans to re-open registration. Individuals may regain the ability to register .cn domain names sometime in the future, China Daily is reporting. CNNIC, which manages the .cn country code domain name for China, banned individuals from registering the domain names late last year as it cracked down on pornography and false registrations. .Cn became very popular thanks to cut rate pricing, but the low pricing made the domain a popular tool for criminal activity. Earlier ... 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 ...
Tue 5th January 2010
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Report: China Halts Overseas Registrars from Registering .CN Domains - Registrar reports that overseas registrars are restricted from registering .cn domains. According to a report at RRPproxy, .Cn registry CNNIC has temporarily halted overseas registrars from registering .cn domain names on behalf of registrants. The move comes after CNNIC cracked down on registrations last month to clean up the .cn namespace. The notice says overseas registrars won’t be able to register .CN domains “starting with January 6, 2010, 18:00 PM (Beijing ... read more ...
Mon 16th June 2008
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VeriSign: 162 Million Domain Names Registered - Registry sees sharp domain registration growth (again). .Com and .net registry VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) estimates there are 162 million domain names registered across all TLDs as of the end of Q1 2008. In the company’s latest Domain Name Industry Brief (pdf), the company says new registrations increased 17% compared to the previous quarter, although the overall base of domains grew only 6%. Other interesting news: -.Net is no longer the third most popular domain ... read more ...