closed Animate.CN

Rubber Duck · Oct 17, 2004

I see last week Animation.com fetched $150,000. Does this mean that animate.cn is worth a bit more than I thought ($500)?

Regards
Dave Wrixon

Anthony Ng · Oct 17, 2004

dwrixon said:
Does this mean that animate.cn is worth a bit more than I thought ($500)?

My take is that most English-word .cn domains (except for the most commonly used 100 words: yes 100, not 1,000) are not worth even their registration fees. A-N-I-M-A-T-E, what a difficult word! True, the online population in China is HUGE, BUT then the majority of them only browse Chinese websites. In other words, you don't need to know a lot of English to be high-tech or web-savvy. That's why acronym or number domains are so popular over there.

Sorry to say that, but I honestly don't think animate.cn is worth that much. The only chance of selling it decent is to another speculator or someone (probably a foreign investor) with a really big animation business (plan); yet this "market" is relatively *small* if we could actually call it so at all.

Rubber Duck · Oct 17, 2004

nameslave said:
My take is that most English-word .cn domains (except for the most commonly used 100 words: yes 100, not 1,000) are not worth even their registration fees. A-N-I-M-A-T-E, what a difficult word! True, the online population in China is HUGE, BUT then the majority of them only browse Chinese websites. In other words, you don't need to know a lot of English to be high-tech or web-savvy. That's why acronym or number domains are so popular over there.

Sorry to say that, but I honestly don't think animate.cn is worth that much. The only chance of selling it decent is to another speculator or someone (probably a foreign investor) with a really big animation business (plan); yet this "market" is relatively *small* if we could actually call it so at all.

Nameslave,

I respect your point of view. In fact, if what you are saying is true then I have got things just about right: 1000 Chinese IDN dot coms, 70 odd three letter acronym dot .cn and a handful of English word dot cn.

Getting very mixed picture at the moment. Chinese sources seem to prefer Romanic dot CN at the moment, but I think in the longer-term dot com IDNs will prevail.

Regards
Dave Wrixon

Anthony Ng · Oct 17, 2004

dwrixon said:
1000 Chinese IDN dot coms, 70 odd three letter acronym dot .cn and a handful of English word dot cn.

Getting very mixed picture at the moment. Chinese sources seem to prefer Romanic dot CN at the moment, but I think in the longer-term dot com IDNs will prevail.

Wow, a thousand Chinese IDN .com's, that's about all the Chinese characters I know! LOL! Just kidding. Yes, 3-letter domains are good, along with numbers. Pinyin definitely rules now (it has been for the last 50 years), but for the future, who knows! I'm not a big fan of IDN (esp. for non-Latin based languages), so I may well be biased here.

But with the sale of a 3-letter .cn well into 4-figure recently, I am now seriously considering (re-)testing the water.

Rubber Duck · Oct 17, 2004

Dear Nameslave,

You may jest but many of our IDN are single Chinese Glyphs and we have concentrated on the most used rather than the obscure!

The dot CN sale you mention, could well be mine! If there are more out there then we really are in business.

Can't see why IDN should be less relevant to non-Lation languages. Don't think everybody has gone to all this trouble just to give the Germans their Umblatts. Not only that, if Latin IDNs are duplicating existing dot coms, then there are likely to be Trade Mark issues. I can see Trade Mark Registrars being convinced that odd swiggle sufficiently differentiates to obviate a Trade Mark infringement.

Regards
Dave Wrixon