Domain names for China surpasses ‘.net’ - What?Written by Abdulrehman on June 25th, 2008
While surfing the internet today I came across this news which says that the registrations for china’s domain, which is ‘.cn’ , has crossed the universal ‘.net’ domain. Although this Chinese domain is not far ahead standing at 11.8 million and ‘.net’ at 11.6 million, but still I thought of ‘.net’ as the second most famous domain suffix after ‘.com’, but what’s this? Its lacking behind ‘.cn’ ? However, I still believe that a ‘.cn’ domain will never be worth as much as the ‘.net’ domain because of one obvious reason, which is that ‘.net’ is universal. Moreover I think people will find it more reliable to visit a ‘.net’ website rather than a ‘.cn’ website, because most of us know about Chinese hackers and do not want to be hacked by one.
Also, the websites with a ‘.cn’ domain mostly are targeted for people living in china itself, not the whole world or maybe most Chinese people. After searching for some websites, I found that most of the websites with a ‘.cn’ domain were in Chinese language which means that people who do not understand Chinese will not visit the website, making ‘.net’ domains still more famous for being mostly in English. But looking at the Chinese Internet population which has highly soared to 210 million users, it actually means that targeting Chinese people is a very good idea as it represents a large part of the world internet population that too of course after the the internet population of the U.S. which is more than 218 million. But if domains are seen on a Country basis then ‘.cn’ is the leader at the moment, followed by Germany’s ‘.de’.
The domain suffix to some extent does matter in the success of a website and unless the website you’re running is really famous, really weird domain suffixes like ‘.la’ are less likely to get traffic especially from search engines and the direct traffic as well. I just did a search on such domains and they show up nowhere on the search engine results. However, the fire that ‘.cn’ domains have picked up they might not be the same as other domain suffixes and I think are worth investing in. If you’re a bulk domain buyer, then you might consider investing in some domains that you wanted to buy for ‘.com’ but are still available at ‘.cn’ because your investment in such domains might pay you off at a pretty good price, as those who were involved in the ‘.com’ buzz ended up earning hundreds and thousands of dollars after reslling them when they became valuable. So this is a investment opporunity for those who are ready to take this opportunity, I also have a list of good domains that are still available for ‘.cn’ so I’ll get them before some one else does.
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While surfing the internet today I came across this news which says that the registrations for china’s domain, which is ‘.cn’ , has crossed the universal ‘.net’ domain. Although this Chinese domain is not far ahead standing at 11.8 million and ‘.net’ at 11.6 million, but still I thought of ‘.net’ as the second most famous domain suffix after ‘.com’, but what’s this? Its lacking behind ‘.cn’ ? However, I still believe that a ‘.cn’ domain will never be worth as much as the ‘.net’ domain because of one obvious reason, which is that ‘.net’ is universal. Moreover I think people will find it more reliable to visit a ‘.net’ website rather than a ‘.cn’ website, because most of us know about Chinese hackers and do not want to be hacked by one.
Also, the websites with a ‘.cn’ domain mostly are targeted for people living in china itself, not the whole world or maybe most Chinese people. After searching for some websites, I found that most of the websites with a ‘.cn’ domain were in Chinese language which means that people who do not understand Chinese will not visit the website, making ‘.net’ domains still more famous for being mostly in English. But looking at the Chinese Internet population which has highly soared to 210 million users, it actually means that targeting Chinese people is a very good idea as it represents a large part of the world internet population that too of course after the the internet population of the U.S. which is more than 218 million. But if domains are seen on a Country basis then ‘.cn’ is the leader at the moment, followed by Germany’s ‘.de’.
The domain suffix to some extent does matter in the success of a website and unless the website you’re running is really famous, really weird domain suffixes like ‘.la’ are less likely to get traffic especially from search engines and the direct traffic as well. I just did a search on such domains and they show up nowhere on the search engine results. However, the fire that ‘.cn’ domains have picked up they might not be the same as other domain suffixes and I think are worth investing in. If you’re a bulk domain buyer, then you might consider investing in some domains that you wanted to buy for ‘.com’ but are still available at ‘.cn’ because your investment in such domains might pay you off at a pretty good price, as those who were involved in the ‘.com’ buzz ended up earning hundreds and thousands of dollars after reslling them when they became valuable. So this is a investment opporunity for those who are ready to take this opportunity, I also have a list of good domains that are still available for ‘.cn’ so I’ll get them before some one else does.
I am Abdulrehman Agha, the guy behind 3arn.Net. I am 17 years old, and live in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. I'm in Grade 11 studying in Saint Mary's Academy. I started this blog to share my money making experiences with others through the internet.
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