Breaking news: 4.CN rebrands as 8.CN

The story regurgitated more often than a goat’s dinner, is that Chinese love numbers. Numeric domain names are thus used as coinage, more or less retaining their intrinsic value, but not all numbers are created equal. Chinese domain name marketplace, 4.CN, is taking a bold rebranding move, as number four means “death” in Chinese. “It’s […]

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How Chinese domain traffic works

DomainGang received more than 12 thousand visitors today, thanks to a Google snowflake. Later tonight, we thought it was all over, when we noticed getting fresh traffic from China. It turned out that CNBeta.com – a Chinese geek pasteboard web site – had linked to our snowflake story as well. Thank you Chinese people – […]

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Chinese domain registry recalls Fake Domains

The Chinese domain Registry, ChinaNet has recalled a “substantial number” of counterfeit .CN domain names, according to China Daily News. “This morning ChinaNet in cooperation with police identified and recalled more than five hundred thousand counterfeit .CN domain names”, said Lee Yo, spokesperson for ChinaNet. “Most of the domains were produced in sweatshops in the […]

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