A list of available .CN's

[mole]

I am NOT a dinosaur, duh. .COM is

 

[NamePopper.com]

Originally posted by mole
I am NOT a dinosaur

:laugh:

 

[alia]

:laugh: –some kinda restless animal anyway.

 

[alia]

mole:
Hey, alia, are you going to register any Chinese MULTS?

No, I believe it won't work for any 2-byte language.

 

[yesonline]

Originally posted by nameslave

Good take: gan and gaijing are very Chinese; but o and soto are a bit more Japanese, I'd say. LOL!

What kind of Chinese language you refer to gan and gaijing?

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by yesonline


What kind of Chinese language you refer to gan and gaijing?

I thought there was only one Chinese language after all. When I said they are "very Chinese", I mean they look Chinese; and isn't it that gan, gai and jing are all Chinese words? Of course, you'll have to be familiar with Hanyu Pinyin in the first place.

 

[insomnia]

All those names just listed : valueless in my opinion. Too long, too hard to spell.

 

[mole]

Too dotcomish sounding to me too. Most of the best names were already grandfathered.

 

[gariben]

proper japanese:

"otosan mite, gaijin san da! "

the word "gaijing" definitely doesn't exist

 

[Wot]

Nameslave,

For your info there are two main Chinese languages, Mandarin(Putonghua) and Cantonese, but about 1500 dialects

Mandarin tends to be written in simplified Chinese whereas Cantonese tend to use Big5.

ALL China related domain names, .com.cn and .cn are in english characters, smart people aren't they!

 

[alia]

dotus:
For your info there are two main Chinese languages, Mandarin(Putonghua) and Cantonese, but about 1500 dialects.

Cantonese and Hokkien are all popular spoken dialects outside mainland China, but if you are talking about the written Chinese, there is only Mandarin.

 

[alia]

BTW, is this any good? CSL.cn –Chinese as the second language. LOL

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by dotus
Nameslave,

For your info there are two main Chinese languages, Mandarin(Putonghua) and Cantonese, but about 1500 dialects

Mandarin tends to be written in simplified Chinese whereas Cantonese tend to use Big5.

dotus:

Oh, I almost forgot that your wife is Chinese, right? But haven't I mentioned to you before that my PARENTS are Chinese, too! LOL! Since I'm proudly Canadian, I don't wear that "Chinese badge" a lot; but the truth is: I can read, write, speak and understand Chinese (both Putonghua/Mandarin and Cantonese) fairly well.

Even though Cantonese is widely used in Hong Kong (where I was born and you now live) and the southern province of Guangdong, it's still a dialect and has no comparison to Putonghua which is the official Chinese language. Hokkien, on the other hand, is the dialect of the Fujian province which is adjacent to Taiwan (where alia and yesonline live) and therefore widely spoken by native Taiwanese.

As for the written language. Simplified Chinese has been in place since 1949 when the Communist Party took over while Traditional Chinese is still widely used in Hong Kong and Taiwan. However, they are just slightly different and most Chinese with good classical training should have no difficulty understanding (since many Simplified Chinese characters find their roots in archaic calligraphic styles). By the way, GB and Big5 are only character coding for computers.

Okay, class dismissed.

 

[alia]

Well done then, the only question left is that, why don't you get some nice .cn's, nameslave?

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by alia
Well done then, the only question left is that, why don't you get some nice .cn's, nameslave?

You may want to re-read my disclaimer posted earlier.

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?s=&postid=190827#post190827

 

[alia]

ouch

 

[mole]

Yeah, it was not a real LL, but a compromised launched on which all the best (per speculator definitions) .cn had been taken.