Domain sales Made in China.
The Chinese domain market is busy, despite the drop in volume and average prices, for the “domain Chip” category.
China’s brightest domain investors gathered last month to discuss the present and future of domain investing, at the World Domain Conference.
Recently, the Chinese government ordered popular portals to not produce their own news; the latter should be done by official sources only.
Chinese domain registrar, eName, maintains a news portal in Chinese, about domain names.
One section is about recent transactions, and basically they copy stories of .com domain sales made public by domain bloggers, re-writing them in order to plug .CN domains.
Nice.
It was one of these stories, that took our spoof article on the auction of Cock.com on NameJet, and served it to the Chinese as a real sale. The eName article hails the supposed sale of Cock.com to Richard, a farmer from Florida.
Great seeing the “eName” watermark on the image, let alone not quoting the source of the story!
Spectacular cock-up! 😀
Here it is, translated from Chinese. Hat tip to Raymond of TLDInvestors.com.
Meanwhile, Chinese domain sales have plateaued, for the range of 2 to 4 characters, in the .CN, .COM and .NET TLDs that we keep track of.
Here are today’s names:
nlq.cn
pkh.cn
fsmh.cn
nkqc.cn
pkjc.cn
rhqc.cn
hctw.com
jdhh.com
jnxk.com
mdpq.com
mzfw.com
pbnq.com
qhmb.com
qkjc.com
trxk.com
ttkm.com
wjmw.com
zwrt.com
