Those who regged .CN's - Develop them!

[insomnia]

(Again, lets talk about the .CN. Feel free to question, argue, comment, whatever you want )

Well, as we know, the .CN is new and untested in its field. Although, I believe that the use of .CN grows ever popular and is being used (in China) more often everyday. This got me thinking:
If there are practically no (or hardly any) developed .CN sites, what other .CN sites will there be to compete with? It got me thinking. Would there be a development rush? Would the first website to be the most popular?

I compared the new .CN extension with the first .COM extension and looked at how the .COM evolved. Yahoo, I believe was one of the first major websites to hit the web that provided something useful. And in the earliest stages, Yahoo became popular and well known simply because A) It was one of the only sites B) Friends told other friends, which told other friends, etc.

So, what would be logical in my mind, would be to develop your .CN names as soon as possible. Imagine: A search engine that provides search results in English and Chinese, translates site summaries, etc. Make it useful, market it, and you will have one of the only great .CN search engines early into the game that may grow rapidly. Also, developing your .CN's will give us the world a better idea of the domain market and values So you really can't lose.

Anyone following me? Agree? Disagree? Discussions are great, feel free to respond with any thoughts you may have on the .CN.
Thanks

 

[iBizStart]

I have templates.cn and was thinking about developing it but im not sure how the market will be for .cn and don't want to spend a lot of money if it doesn't take off

 

[timechange.com]

IMO, with FEW exceptions, .CN is no better than the novelty TLD's .CC/.WS/.TV - none of which is warmer than 32 degrees.

Support .US!

 

[Poker]

I disagree timechange!
.cn is a second level domain extension just as .us/.co.uk/.de and many others. Do you honestly think that .CC/.WS/.TV can be compared to .us/.co.uk/.de or any other major country extension?
I sure don't.

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by E-Promote
I disagree timechange!
.cn is a second level domain extension just as .us/.co.uk/.de and many others. Do you honestly think that .CC/.WS/.TV can be compared to .us/.co.uk/.de or any other major country extension?
I sure don't.

I agree with Timechanges assessment of comparing .CN to the novelty country codes.

.CC, .WS, and .TV are country codes, but they are offered globally and marketed as .com alternatives, so is .CN.

Your examples, .US, .DE, and .co.uk are true country codes that are supposed to be registered by residents or businesses of the respective countries.

Besides...theres that whole chinese character / chinese language barrier as well.

 

[Sharpy]

chinese character=Jackie Chan
chinese language barrier= :sigh: :weird: :depressed

 

[puxa2]

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[RON2]

Yes, develop them please. Someone find a way to offer a product or service to the Chinese people without encoutering language, payment, or shipping problems.

Otherwise, this extension is going to be a huge flop because 95% of the good domains have been bought by speculators that have no ability or reason to develop them.

 

[puxa2]

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[puxa2]

Good idea insomnia.


Good luck.

 

[Poker]

Originally posted by GiantDomains

.CC, .WS, and .TV are country codes, but they are offered globally and marketed as .com alternatives, so is .CN.

GiantDomains, I do not see .cn being marketed anywhere as .com alternatives. They are not marketed in this way any more than the other contry codes that I have referenced.

Originally posted by GiantDomains

Your examples, .US, .DE, and .co.uk are true country codes that are supposed to be registered by residents or businesses of the respective countries.

And so is .cn
All of the ones that you mentioned can be registered by almost anyone however so what's your point?

 

[domainduck]

Before I give my Dot-CN domain names a thumbs up or a thumbs down for resale or development, I am going to watch/count traffic for 6-9 months.


quack

 

[beatz]

I think so far the best way to make use of .cn domains is this:

Develop a site for the US market instead of chinese market; but products etc should be somewhat connected to China.
So as long as it's about asian products, the .cn gives some kind of credibility.
Plus as with all extensions, as longs as the name itself is generic it might help the SE ranking of your site.
Like my Ginseng.cn (not yet developed):
- Ginseng has strong searches on overture.
- Ginseng is related to China/Asia
So what i'll do is selling Ginseng to the american market, but give the site a credible chinese/asian feel.Plus optimizing the site for the keyword "ginseng" and maybe a few others.
This way i will have a site that hopefully ranks high in the searchresults, offers products that are connected to the .cn extension(credibility) and targets a market that might even give the .cn extension a higher credibility than the .com version.
So to me the key is credible content connected to the .cn extension.

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by E-Promote



All of the ones that you mentioned can be registered by almost anyone however so what's your point?

My point is I didn't fall for the hype like you did, lol. You must admit the hype is very similar to .WS, etc, and -RJ- hit the nail on the head. Specualtors grabbed 95% of these, and they are just going to sit in their accounts, so they are worth dirt. Maybe you can get some seach engine placement out of them.

 

[Anthony Ng]

Originally posted by Sharpy
chinese character=Jackie Chan
chinese language barrier= :sigh: :weird: :depressed

This is EXACTLY why .CN's are NOT for non-Chinese! How are you going to develop it when you don't read or write Chinese, one of the most difficult language on earth??

And for those who are thinking of using Englisn on a .cn, you may simply forget it.

 

[domainduck]

Originally posted by beatz
I think so far the best way to make use of .cn domains is this:

Develop a site for the US market instead of chinese market; but products etc should be somewhat connected to China.
So as long as it's about asian products, the .cn gives some kind of credibility.
Plus as with all extensions, as longs as the name itself is generic it might help the SE ranking of your site.
Like my Ginseng.cn (not yet developed):
- Ginseng has strong searches on overture.
- Ginseng is related to China/Asia
So what i'll do is selling Ginseng to the american market, but give the site a credible chinese/asian feel.Plus optimizing the site for the keyword "ginseng" and maybe a few others.
This way i will have a site that hopefully ranks high in the searchresults, offers products that are connected to the .cn extension(credibility) and targets a market that might even give the .cn extension a higher credibility than the .com version.
So to me the key is credible content connected to the .cn extension.

Nice plan, beatz. Perfect name for experimentation.

You got my wheels turning... hmmm


quack

 

[alia]

Why is .cn so special?
Hopefully .cn will soon take away most of the space that .com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn used to have, because shorter is always better. And, .cn is the only extension with the potential to rival .com or .net in the future, most of us would have to admit that something like .org/.biz/.info/.us... somewhat, are just the compromised or substitutive extensions for the .com or .net we can't get (what the heck is the difference between .biz and .com?), and they will always be. .uk/.ca... only mean UK-based or Canada-based English speaking sites, and any English speaking site would prefer a .com if it's for the global market. But .cn is a totally different species, and a truly BIG one, I won't expect .de would double its registered number(5,460K-Mar 2003) in the next five years, but I'll bet on a 30-50 times growth for .cn.(to March 2003, the regged total for .com is 21,336K, .net 5,460K, and all .cn's less than 130K)
Always invest in a growing market, rather than an over "developed" one. "Where was I when .com first launched?", I am glad I am here now, broke though.
Just as we can find many Japanese porn sites go with English versions, a .cn site is not necessarily in Chinese ONLY, a .cn has much better chance than a .com.cn for a Chinese site to go international, they were forced to join the .com battles for that, but now comes an easier option. Maybe what we can do now is to try some sorts of multilingual sites, and if anybody needs help with Chinese, plenty forum members here are pretty good at "the most difficult language on earth". Can we Forum guys make a dramatic difference for .cn names? I don't think so, but as global companies all over the world racing to invest their money in Southern China, I do believe the Chinese Internet population will do it soon enough.

 

[Poker]

Originally posted by GiantDomains


My point is I didn't fall for the hype like you did, lol.

GiantDomains, I haven't fallen for any hype. I know that for certain because I have not listened to any, I have simply regged a few .cn's based on my own experience and outlook.

It's funny that you would bring up hype though because the only .cn hype that I have seen so far is coming from yourself and nameslave. You guy's really should give it a rest

 

[GiantDomains]

Originally posted by E-Promote

It's funny that you would bring up hype though because the only .cn hype that I have seen so far is coming from yourself and nameslave.

I've never hyped .CN names, but I will happily hype .com, net, and org.

 

[StockDoctor]

We will be developing the one .cn name we bot. We will be offering the site in both chinese and english, and tying into our .us, (Reiki.us) .com and other extensions within the same category.

It also has a decidedly asian following, so we'll see what comes about.

The domain is Reikimaster.cn