Wednesday, November 26, 2014

Almost 20,000 .XYZ Collision Domains To Be Released On Dec 2nd - NiceNIC.NET

On December 2, 2014 at 2pm (London Time), .XYZ will be releasing thousands of domain names to the public to register which were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list.

The new domain name extension .XYZ, is the new gTLD’s with the most domain name registrations with over 725,000 according to ntldstats.com.

Almost 20,000 names were held back due to ICANN’s name collision list, and a large majority are being released.

.XYZ just published a complete list of these domain names at gen.xyz/collisionlist.

These names will be up for grabs on a first come, first served basis, for normal registration fee at any registrar where you can register .XYZ domain names.

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Here are some highlights from the list:

There are over 1,000 short 3 and 4 character .XYZ domain names  that will be released:
3L: 75 names
3N: 100 names
3C: 95 names
4L: nearly 400 names
4N: 18 names
4C: nearly 550 names

Keyword rich domains like OnlineCasino.xyz will also become available, which I’m sure will get snatched up pretty quickly.

Some other examples of good .XYZ domain names that will become available for registration include:
220.xyz
1984.xyz
blacklist.xyz
brit.xyz
carexpert.xyz
eiffel.xyz
root.xyz
seolinks.xyz
venus.xyz
webdesigners.xyz

Hundreds of popular first names and last names will also be released including:
clare.xyz
cohen.xyz
norton.xyz
martha.xyz
juliet.xyz
berger.xyz
andrews.xyz
peterson.xyz
harrison.xyz
michelle.xyz
fernandez.xyz
garcia.xyz
ernesto.xyz

Good luck to all!

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90% OFF Timed to 2014 Thanksgiving Day - NiceNIC.NET

Dear Valued Customer,

As we count our blessings on this Thanksgiving Day,
we count ourselves extremely lucky to have customers like you:

Thank you for making this year a sustainable success;
Thank you for making our NiceNIC people have a steady job;
Thank you for your positive comments that encouraged us much;
Thank you for recommending NiceNIC.NET to your friends and partners;
Thank you for your confidence and believing that we will surely become the BEST!

We wish you and your family a very happy Thanksgiving and joyful holiday season.
Whether you are a multi million dollar business or something small and local,
everybody will win on 2014 Thanksgiving Day.

Starting from November 27 up till November 30, 2014,
the following domain names will be offered with fantastic discounts, even up to 90% OFF:

 Domain Name
 Promo Price
 .XYZ
$1.49 
 .Asia
$1.69 
 .PW
$3.29 
 .CN
$5 
 .COM
$8.5 
 .HK
$11.5 

Sincerely,
Your Private Registrar
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ICANN CNNIC HKIRC Accredited Registrar



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Tuesday, May 6, 2014

Funny Digits .CN: New Republic on Chinese Domain Names - NiceNIC.NET

The Secret Messages Inside Chinese URLs
Decoding 4008-517-517.com
BY CHRISTOPHER BEAM @jcbeam

An American friend living in Beijing once said she refused to communicate with anyone whose email address consisted of a string of numbers, such as 62718298454 @ 163.com. This made sense to me at the time—why make email addresses as difficult to remember as phone numbers? But I soon realized that issuing a blanket ban on number-based communications would mean cutting off just about every single Chinese person I knew.

In the U.S., you really only have to remember two long numbers, ever: Your phone number and your Social Security number. In China, you're constantly barraged by digits: QQ numbers (QQ is China's most popular chat service), email addresses, and even URLs. For example, the massive online retailer Jingdong Mall is at jd.com or, if that takes too long to type, 3.cn. Check out 4399.com to see one of China's first and largest online gaming websites. Buy and sell used cars at 92.com. Want to purchase train tickets? It's as easy as 12306.cn.

Why the preference for digits over letters? It mostly has to do with ease of memorization. To a native English-speaker, remembering a long string of digits might seem harder than memorizing a word. But that's if you understand the word. For many Chinese, numbers are easier to remember than Latin characters. Sure, Chinese children learn the pinyin system that uses the Roman alphabet to spell out Mandarin words (for example, the word for "Internet" 网络, is spelled wangluo in pinyin). And yes, Arabic numerals (1-2-3) are technically just as much a foreign import as the Roman alphabet (A-B-C). But most Chinese are more familiar with numbers than letters, especially those who didn't go to college. To many, "Hotmail.com" might as well be Cyrillic.

The digits in a domain name usually aren't random. The Internet company NetEase uses the web address 163.com—a throwback to the days of dial-up when Chinese Internet users had to enter 163 to get online. The phone companies China Telecom and China Unicom simply reappropriated their well-known customer service numbers as domain names10086.cn and 10010.cn, respectively.
Digits are even more convenient when you consider that the words for numbers are homophones for other words. The URL for the massive e-commerce site Alibaba, for example, is 1688.com, pronounced "yow-leeyoh-ba-ba"—close enough! Those digits can just as often have individual meanings. The video sharing site 6.cn works because the word for "six" is a near-homophone for the word "stream". The number five is pronounced wu, which sounds like wo, which means "I". The number one is pronounced yao, which with a different tone means "want". So the job-hunting site 51job.com sounds a lot like "I want a job." Likewise, to order McDonalds' delivery online, just go to 4008-517-517.com, the "517" of which sounds a bit like "I want to eat." (An English equivalent might be the old radio jingle, "How many cookies did Andrew eat? Andrew 8-8000.")

This kind of number-language has become an infinitely malleable shorthand among Chinese web users: 1 means "want", 2 means "love", 4 means "dead" or "world" or "is", 5 means "I", 7 means "wife" or "eat", 8 means "get rich" or "not" and 9 means "long time" or "alcohol". The numbers 5201314, for example, mean 我爱你一生一世, or "I will love you forever"; 0748 means "go die"; and 687 means "I'm sorry." Chinese has plenty of other number-based slang, such as erbaiwu, or "250" which means "idiot" or "38" pronounced sanba, which means "bitch" And of course there's the association of certain numbers with good or bad luck, and the subsequent demand for addresses and phone numbers with lots of 8s ("get rich") and minimal 4s ("die"). Back in 2003, a Chinese airline paid $280,000 for the phone number 88888888.
 
Why don't Chinese web addresses just use Mandarin characters? Because that's a pain, too. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which sets the rules for web addresses globally, has periodically hyped the expansion of domain names to include non-Latinate scripts, but Chinese web sites have yet to take full advantage. Some devices require a special plug-in to type in Chinese URLs, and even then it takes longer to type or write out characters than to input a few digits. Plus, for web sites that want to expand internationally but don't want to alienate foreign audiences with unfamiliar characters, numbers are a decent compromise.

Still, the numbers/letters divide is emblematic of the Internet's built-in bias: Even more than two decades after its birth, it's still a fundamentally American system. ICANN is an American non-profit corporation, though the U.S. recently agreed to hand it over to a "global multi-stakeholder community" in 2015. ASCII, the character-encoding scheme that was long used on most web pages, is short for the "American Standard Code for Information Interchange." In 2012, the United States refused to sign an international telecommunications treaty, supported by both Russia and China, that would shift the Internet away from its current U.S.-centric form of governance. In other words, the structure of the Internet is a constant reminder of American digital hegemony, from WiFi standards to GPS. Even the ".cn" at the end of Chinese URLs comes from the English word for China, not the Chinese word for China. You can't blame other countries for wanting to tell the American 250s to 0748.

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Wednesday, April 30, 2014

Chinese gTLDs Pushes New gTLD Registrations Beyond 600,000 - NiceNIC.NET

Chinese gTLDs Pushes New gTLD Registrations Beyond 600,000 - nicenic.net
The commencement of General Availability for two Chinese language new gTLDs saw total registrations across all new gTLDs to jump to 634,450 on 28 April.

The two Chinese language gTLDs, .xn--3ds443g (在线) and .xn--fiq228c5hs (中文网), had registration figures of 29,722 and 14,216 respectively at the end of the day, pushing them to fourth and tenth on the nTLDstats list of top new gTLDs. Interestingly, it was the Chinese government's Service Development Center of the State Commission for Public Sector Reform that had by far the most registrations for each gTLD with 98.6 and 71.2 percent of all domains registered respectively.

According to DomainNameWire, about 20,000 of these registrations came from a deal TLD Registry struck with the above Chinese government department.

Overall .guru is still, for now, the leading new gTLD with 52,927 registrations and now a 8.34 percent market share, followed by .berlin (46,914) and .photography (33,771). - See more at: http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=13630

Chinese .Mobile New TLD now Available - NiceNIC.NET

New Chinese "mobile" top-level domain now available to all website owners and operators

Afilias announced today the general availability of its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level : .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese).

You can read the press release after the jump:

Global registry services provider and dotMobi registry operator Afilias today announced the general availability of its first Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) at the top level: .移动 (.MOBILE in Chinese).

Transliterated as "Yi Dong" .移动 is a domain name just like .MOBI, which also indicates a website works on a mobile device. But the .移动 domain is part of a new generation of top-level domains (TLDs) that are written in native languages rather than traditional ASCII scripts like the .INFO or .MOBI TLDs.

A Chinese complement to the .MOBI domain, .移动 is designed to let Chinese-speakers - wherever in the world they're located - know that a website was designed to work on a mobile device like a tablet, iPhone or Android device.

"With more than one billion mobile phone users in China plus millions more Chinese speakers around the world, the ability to effectively reach the Chinese-language community is more important than ever," said Roland LaPlante, Senior Vice President and CMO, Afilias. "By using a globally operative .移动 address, businesses and individuals can expand their appeal to this audience by reaching them in their native language, regardless of country, operator or device."

.移动 domains can be registered for up to 10 years at a time. Many registrars offer website building, email and other services along with .移动 domains to make your online presence work exactly as you envision it!

The .移动 general availability period officially opens at 16:00:00 UTC on April 17, 2014. You can find a registrar for your .移动 domain at http://afilias.info/new-tlds/mobileregistrars.

NiceNIC.NET Team
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ICANN Afilias Accredited Registrar
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Sunday, April 20, 2014

12 Reasons to Register Chinese Domain Names with NiceNIC.NET

Welcome to the party of Chinese domain names, .CN domain names, .中国(.China) domain names!


It will be not difficulty for you to find the benefits & advantages to register Chinese domain names with NiceNIC.NET:


1. Local Chinese CNNIC Accredited Registrar, quality service guaranteed, free registrar lock to avoid domain transfer out in bad faith;


2. The lowest pricing, please refer to http://nicenic.net/customer/pricing.php. With other registrar, you need to pay even 10 times more per year per .CN;


3. The quickest registration, instant activation. With other registrar, you need to submit materials/documents, scanning or mailing, and wait for at least 3 business days before the Chinese domain registration is completed;


4. NiceNIC's trustee service is lifelong FREE. With other registrar, trustee service will be never free;


5. NiceNIC's trustee service keeps you away from the red-tape verification process, no materials/documents required;


6. NiceNIC's trustee service protect your privacy information, we take your identity and contact information seriously;


7. NiceNIC's trustee service will NOT affect your owning/possessing/managing/transferring/renewing the Chinese domain names;


8. FREE URL redirect, FREE URL forwarding, simple steps: My Account > My Domain > Manage > DNS Records > Url redirect > Update > Restart NDNS;


9. FREE nameserver registration, we help you register nameservers like ns1.mychinesedomain.cn, ns2.mychinesedomain.cn, please simply tell us what IP address you hope the nameserves to be registered with;


10. Never-say-NO customer service, NiceNIC.NET staffs are nice, patient, honest, sincere, faithful and hardworking;


11. NiceNIC.NET is the ONLY CNNIC accredited registrar who can support English website, English control center, English customer service in China;


12. No registrar in the whole world would know better about Chinese domain names, Chinese policies than NiceNIC.NET ... ..



You can name out MORE!


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Customized Nameserver of Chinese Domain Names Update Failed

- See more at: http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=13435#sthash.bSnESZVD.dpufWelcome to the party of Chinese domain names, .CN domain names, .中国(.China) domain names!

It will be not difficulty for you to find the benefits & advantages to register Chinese domain names with NiceNIC.NET:

1. Local Chinese CNNIC Accredited Registrar, quality service guaranteed, free registrar lock to avoid domain transfer out in bad faith;

2. The lowest pricing, please refer to http://nicenic.net/customer/pricing.php. With other registrar, you need to pay even 10 times more per year per .CN;

3. The quickest registration, instant activation. With other registrar, you need to submit materials/documents, scanning or mailing, and wait for at least 3 business days before the Chinese domain registration is completed;

4. NiceNIC's trustee service is lifelong FREE. With other registrar, trustee service will be never free;

5. NiceNIC's trustee service keeps you away from the red-tape verification process, no materials/documents required;

6. NiceNIC's trustee service protect your privacy information, we take your identity and contact information seriously;

7. NiceNIC's trustee service will NOT affect your owning/possessing/managing/transferring/renewing the Chinese domain names;

8. FREE URL redirect, FREE URL forwarding, simple steps: My Account > My Domain > Manage > DNS Records > Url redirect > Update > Restart NDNS;

9. FREE nameserver registration, we help you register nameservers like ns1.mychinesedomain.cn, ns2.mychinesedomain.cn, please simply tell us what IP address you hope the nameserves to be registered with;

10. Never-say-NO customer service, NiceNIC.NET staffs are nice, patient, honest, sincere, faithful and hardworking;

11. NiceNIC.NET is the ONLY CNNIC accredited registrar who can support English website, English control center, English customer service in China;

12. No registrar in the whole world would know better about Chinese domain names, Chinese policies than NiceNIC.NET ... ..

You can name out MORE!

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Register Chinese and Hong Kong domain names at NiceNic as Reseller

Question:
We currently registered Chinese and Hong Kong domain names at NiceNIC.NET as a domain Reseller for our customers. 
1. We wonder if it is possible to register domain names in the name of our customer instead of in our name or NiceNIC's trustee service.
2. If yes, can we do this via our reseller account?

Answer:
Dear Valued Customer,

Thank you very much for the questions about Chinese domain registration and Hong Kong domain registration. Hope our response will find you well.

To your questions, please find below our answers accordingly:

"We currently registered Chinese and Hong Kong domain names at NiceNIC.NET as a domain Reseller for our customers. "
--> We much appreciate your choosing NiceNIC as your domain Partner and it is our BIG honor to have the opportunity to serve you.

"1. We wonder if it is possible to register domain names in the name of our customer instead of in our name or NiceNIC's trustee service."
-->
1) To be honest, we hope our customers can register Chinese domain names, i..e. .CN, .COM.CN, .中国 etc. in their own names, then we can exempt from the risk by offering trustee service under our own company name.
However, the policy set by Registry of CNNIC did not allow us to do so as a Chinese domestic Registrar. CNNIC set different policies for domestic Registrars and oversea Registrars, that is also the reason why oversea Registrar like *** can offer you Chinese domain registrations without trustee service required.
In a word, currently, the only approach for you to register Chinese domains in individual or company name based outside of mainland China and Hong Kong with NiceNIC is to use trustee service.
For information about how to register Chinese domain names in individual or company name based in mainland China or Hong Kong, please refer to http://nicenic.net/domain/cn-domain-registration.php#cnReg.
Nonetheless, it is easy for you to find the benefits & advantages to register Chinese domain names with NiceNIC.NET, please refer to http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=13435.

2) For Hong Kong domain registration, sure you can use your client's own name, see the following 3 steps please:
1> Please fill out your client's contact information by clicking the button of "Edit" next to "Contact: Domain Profile" in the shopping cart OR directly enter your client's contact information if you use "Direct Register";
2> Please fill in a number by referring to http://nicenic.net/domain/hk-domain-registration.php#reg;
3> Please do NOT select the option of "NiceNIC .HK Trustee Service Terms".

If you hope to transfer the ownership to your clients for the registered .HK domain names from NiceNIC's trustee service, please provide us with the scanning copy of your client's company/organization business license/certificate (if your client is company) or your client's passport/ID card (if your client is individual) by Emailing to support@nicenic.net.

"2. If yes, can we do this via our reseller account?"
--> Sure, you can, please refer to "2)".

We remain at your service should you have further questions or concerns.

Kindest regards,
NiceNIC.NET Team
http://nicenic.net
ICANN CNNIC HKIRC Accredited Registrar
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Thursday, April 3, 2014

New gTLDs Reached 415,000 Domain Registrations - NiceNIC.NET

There are now 415,913 new gTLD domain names in 150 new gTLD strings. .Guru is still leading the pack with 47,155 registrations.

.Berlin is in second place with 43,678 registrations , while .Photography has 30,382 registrations.

New gTLDs Reached 415,000 Domain Registrations - NiceNIC.NET

Here are today's stats on the first 30 latin New gTLDs that are into proper general availability :

1.     .guru     47,155     
2.     .berlin     43,678 
3.     .photography     30,382     
4.     .today     17,941     
5.     .tips     17,833     
6.     .email     16,708     
7.     .company     12,433     
8.     .technology     12,398     
9.     .directory     11,372     
10.     .center     9,850     
11.     .clothing     9,765     
12.     .land     9,721     
13.     .bike     9,583     
14.     .gallery     9,294     
15.     .solutions     8,767     
16.     .photos     8,419
17.     .estate     8,379     
18.     .equipment     6,868     
19.     .singles     6,306     
20.     .sexy     6,142 
21.     .ruhr     5,791     
22.     .academy     5,591     
23.     .systems     5,510     
24.     .ventures     5,282     
25.     .training     4,931     
26.     .support     4,784 
27.     .graphics     4,747     
28.     .uno     4,553     
29.     .holdings     4,180     
30.     .lighting     4,124 

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Mar 2014 Top Domain Sales - NiceNIC.NET

37.com was March 2014 highest selling domain name. The domain name changed hands for $1,960,800.
Mar 2014 Top Domain Sales - NiceNIC.NET
Here are the biggest domain name sales of March 2014:

1. 37.com      $1,960,800     
2. Accommodation.com     $286,000     
3. QY.com     $100,000 
3. DDOS.com     $100,000 
5. Blacklist.com     $85,000 
6. Like.it     $75,900     
7. Jamrock.com     $68,750
8. Arwin.com     $60,000      
9. 1905.com     $57,000
10. iAcademy.com     $55,000      
11. Trace.com     $50,000 
11. CancerDiet.com     $50,000 
13. iMeeting.com     $47,750
14. NM.org     $35,000         
15. Juwan.com     $32,500     
16. Umbrella.co.uk $29,050
17. Homify.fr     $27,800    
18. FreeSpins.de      $27,600     
19. Catterton.com     $25,000     
19. Ntent.com     $25,000     
19. AmericanGreen.com    $25,000

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.RU Domain Ranked Sixth in ccTLDs - NiceNIC.NET

.RU Domain Ranked Sixth in ccTLDs - NiceNIC.NET

The Coordination Center for TLD RU/РФ, responsible of the administration of .RU and .РФ extensions, is now approaching 5 million domain name registrations.

.RU currently holds the 6th position in list of biggest ccTLD抯 after .DE , .TK , .UK , .CNand .NL, with 15.3 million domain names for .DE, 15.1 million domain names for .TK , 10.3 million domains for .UK, 6.4 million domain names for .CN and 5.2 million domain names for .NL. .RU is also a leader in terms of growth rates among the biggest ccTLDs.
.RU Domain Ranked Sixth in ccTLDs - NiceNIC.NET
The fourth million .RU domain name was registered on 17 September 2012, while the third million .RU domain name was registered registered on the night of 24/25 September 2010.

Three years ago, .RU got a little brother, IDN TLD .РФ. Since then, the Internet market in Russia started growing twice as fast: by approximately 1,000-1,500 new domain names daily in each domain zone.

Up to date there are 4,929,310 .RU domain names registered.

Register .RU Domain Name with NiceNIC.NET.
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014

Ten tips on doing business in China - NiceNIC.NET

Ten tips on doing business in China - NiceNIC.NET
Tip #1:
Never underestimate the importance of existing connections. You need to be dealing with a Chinese person of influence. If that person feels you are trustworthy enough, and if they can get their network of contacts to trust you, there is a chance you will succeed.

Tip #2:
To protect your intellectual property, use the same due diligence you would in the West.

Tip #3:
Never pressure your Asian colleagues for a decision. To speed up the decision process, slow down. Start from the beginning and work through to a solution in a logical, step-by-step fashion. Then stand your ground.

Tip #4:
The negotiation process will be anything but smooth. Your best strategy is a walk away mentality. You have to go in trying not to make the deal. Explain your position in clear, concise words. State your terms clearly. Respectfully. Then be prepared to walk away if your terms are not met.

Tip #5:
Respect face. Never argue or voice a difference of opinion with anyone even a member of your own team. Never make the other person wrong. Never say "no" directly, as that is considered rude and arrogant.

Tip #6:
Talk in short sentences. Listen more than you speak. Pause between sentences. Find four or five easy ways to say the same thing. Never ask a question that can be answered with a simple yes. Avoid all slang. Skip humour altogether.
Ten tips on doing business in China - NiceNIC.NET
Tip #7:
Manage the way you present written information. Document everything in writing and in precise detail. Present your ideas in stages. Write clearly, using plain English text. In order to appeal to Asian visual bias, use sketches, charts and diagrams.

Tip #8:
Prepare for every interaction. Do not count on your ability to wing it. A lack of preparedness can cause loss of face and trust. Do not give or expect to receive partial answers from your Chinese colleagues, as that is considered offensive.

Tip #9:
Make sure your facts are 100% accurate in every detail, or you will lose credibility. Do not present an idea or theory that has not been fully researched, proven, or studied beforehand.

Tip #10:
Everyone on your team needs to know how to avoid costly gaffes. Most of us are not by nature sensitive to the differences in culture, we have to be taught. It makes sense to teach people the cross-cultural factors that have a direct impact on your profits.

Visit NiceNIC.NET website to get more practical advice on doing business in China. - See more at: http://nicenic.net/connect_china/