Pinyin: For Chinese Domain investors

[Rubber Duck]

Can someone kindly help me in extracting the email address from www.tom.com . The website is in Chinese IDN which I can't read. The reason I need the email address is because I would like to offer them TomPodcast.com to see if the may be interested. I have just been approached by a UK company interested in TomPodcast.com but obviously want to sell to the top bidder, I understand that Tom.com was sold for about 1 million dollars. Any help in extracting the contact email from tom.com or advise on how I should aproach thi would be very welcome....Thanks!

You are clearly a total novice at this. My advice is would be to employ an intermediary who is fluent in Chinese.

Anyway, Whoising the site IDN gives the following details:

Domain Name.......... tom.com
Creation Date........ 1995-03-13
Registration Date.... 2002-03-08
Expiry Date.......... 2014-12-09
Organisation Name.... BEIJING LEITINGWANJUN NETWORK TECHNOLOGY COMPANY LIMITED
Organisation Address. C01, Yongchang Business Center, No. 3 North Yongchang Road
Organisation Address. Economic and Technological Development Area
Organisation Address. Beijing
Organisation Address. -
Organisation Address. -
Organisation Address. CHINA

Admin Name........... Director of Investigation and Development Center
Admin Address........ C01, Yongchang Business Center, No. 3 North Yongchang Road
Admin Address........ Economic and Technological Development Area
Admin Address........ Beijing
Admin Address........ -
Admin Address........ -
Admin Address........ CHINA
Admin Email.......... [email protected]
Admin Phone.......... +86.1068730066.2599
Admin Fax............ +86.1088578978

 

[jecy]

Hehe, I am a Chinese, I know pinyin domain name is not a good choice in China.

not so , for example : baidu.com :veryangry:

 

[Rubber Duck]

not so , for example : baidu.com :veryangry:

You mean http://百度.cn ???

 

[chording]

You mean http://百度.cn ???

Btw, http://百度.cn is not owned by Baidu.com

 

[DomainDep.com]

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[domainfun]

Yule.com (Entertainment) recently bought by Chinese for 20k.

It's a reseller price, but it looks like they're going to develop it...it just went way too cheap, they'll do well much more easily with such a name

 

[Rubber Duck]

Btw, http://百度.cn is not owned by Baidu.com

Yes, it is being squatted as is the dot com.

I would think it will be a formality for Baidu to Wipo that when they need it!

It's a reseller price, but it looks like they're going to develop it...it just went way too cheap, they'll do well much more easily with such a name

Latest indications are that IDN.cn are now resolving on all browsers including IE6 without a pluggin. In the short-term that is very a definite advantage to the ccTLD over the dot com. In the longer-term Pinyin is dead as the Dodo.

 

[CPTL]

And CCTV reported two days ago........

http://www.cctv.com/program/bizchina/20070208/105719.shtml

 

[DomainDep.com]

After 5 yrs since I started this thread, Pinyin is still number 1 choice for the chinese web address.
IDN is going nowhere imo!

 

[brian1234]

Yes, and i'd love to be able to say that IDN has taken off in
China but the truth is, it hasn't!

Back in 2003/4, I too was full of Chinese IDN rhetoric, about
how it would "wield an axe" over Pinyin and make it beg for
mercy.

I thought that feelings of nationalism in China would surely
propel Chinese IDN to the forefront, and lets not forget, it
does reflect their own language.

I was wrong 'though. Lesson learned...