FAQ for China/Chinese domain names - NiceNIC.NET

Dear Valued NiceNIC Customer/Partner/Reseller,

In view of some of you still have questions/confusion upon Chinese/China/.CN/中文/.中国/Simplified Chinese/Traditional Chinese domain names, we collect some frequently asked questions & answers for your information. Hope it will be helpful/useful anyhow.

#1 What are the new Chinese symbols? Which is .cn Chinese Traditional and simple?
---> Please ignore the traditional version of .CN (traditional version of .CN is .中國), currently only Hong Kong, Macau and Taiwan are using traditional Chinese. The simplified version of .CN is .中国.

#2 Also the other two are they Chinese.com and . net and is there now .cn meaning .china and a .Chinese and do all 3 come in Simple and traditional?
---> (Chinese characters).COM and (Chinese characters).NET have meanings of both .COM & .NET domain names and Simplified Chinese domain names (forget Traditional Chinese please).

#3 .China = .中国
.CN = .CN
both .CN and .中国 represent China/Chinese domain names.

#4 Below please find a list for AVAILABLE China/Chinese domain names OR a list for all domain names operated by Registry of CNNIC:
(Chinese Characters).CN
(Letters and Numbers).CN
Letters.CN
Numbers.CN

.中国
(Chinese Characters).中国
(Letters and Numbers).中国
Letters.中国
Numbers.中国

.公司 (公司 means "company, corporation, firm" in English)
(Chinese Characters).公司

.网络 (网络 means "network" in English)
(Chinese Characters).网络

(Letters and Numbers).COM.CN
Letters.COM.CN
Numbers.COM.CN

Domain names with same rule as .COM.CN:
.net.cn
.org.cn
.ah.cn
.bj.cn
.cq.cn
.fj.cn
.gd.cn
.gs.cn
.gx.cn
.gz.cn
.ha.cn
.hb.cn
.he.cn
.hi.cn
.hk.cn
.hl.cn
.hn.cn
.jl.cn
.js.cn
.jx.cn
.ln.cn
.mo.cn
.nm.cn
.nx.cn
.qh.cn
.sc.cn
.sd.cn
.sh.cn
.sn.cn
.sx.cn
.tj.cn
.tw.cn
.xj.cn

#5 if I buy it in Simple does it automatically give me the traditional form?
---> Yes

More questions? Please feel free to contact us at support @ nicenic.net or by submitting ticket online. Thank you!


Yours faithfully,

NiceNIC.NET Team

ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar

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CN 5 NET 6.5 COM 8 HK 31 - ICANN Accredited Registrar NiceNIC.NET

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NiceNIC.NET (Chinese version: IISP.COM), Hong Kong China ICANN Accredited Registrar, is offering domain registration services with prices as follows:
 
.CN $5/yr + FREE Proxy Service
.COM.CN $5/yr + FREE Proxy Service
.CN.COM $6.5 1st yr
 
.HK $31.67/yr
.COM.HK $31.67/yr
.TW $38.33/yr
.COM.TW $38.33/yr
 
.NET $6.5/yr
.INFO $6.5 1st yr
.PW $6.5 1st yr
 
.COM $8.17/yr
 
Complete NiceNIC domain pricing: http://nicenic.net/customer/pricing.php
 
FREE Extras:
# Lifetime Whois Privacy
# Nameserver Registration
# DNS Records Update
# Control Panel
# Domain Push
# Reseller API
# Unlimited Support Tickets System
# Friendly & Patient Customer Support
# WHMCS Compatible
# No minimum purchase and time requirements
 
NiceNIC.NET is looking forward to doing business with you.
 
Any feedback we could receive from your end will be greatly appreciated.
 
Faithfully,
NiceNIC.NET Team
https://NiceNIC.NET
ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar

NiceNIC.NET (Chinese version: IISP.COM), Hong Kong China ICANN Accredited Registrar, is offering domain registration services with prices as follows:
 
.CN $5/yr + FREE Proxy Service
.COM.CN $5/yr + FREE Proxy Service
.CN.COM $6.5 1st yr
 
.HK $31.67/yr
.COM.HK $31.67/yr
.TW $38.33/yr
.COM.TW $38.33/yr
 
.NET $6.5/yr
.INFO $6.5 1st yr
.PW $6.5 1st yr
 
.COM $8.17/yr
 
Complete NiceNIC domain pricing: http://nicenic.net/customer/pricing.php
 
FREE Extras:
# Lifetime Whois Privacy
# Nameserver Registration
# DNS Records Update
# Control Panel
# Domain Push
# Reseller API
# Unlimited Support Tickets System
# Friendly & Patient Customer Support
# WHMCS Compatible
# No minimum purchase and time requirements
 
NiceNIC.NET is looking forward to doing business with you.
 
Any feedback we could receive from your end will be greatly appreciated.
 
Faithfully,
NiceNIC.NET Team
https://NiceNIC.NET
ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar - See more at: http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=11945#sthash.oGqoNOIP.dpuf

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* "Non-professional" opinion also Valued by NiceNIC.NET:
Not real "Non-professional" but Self-Styled "Non-professional" by Arick
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Question by NiceNIC.NET new Editor Fonnie:
To be honest, I have difficulty in writing something to promote .HK and .TW domain names, as you will see from the pricing list of http://nicenic.net/customer/pricing.php, we are offering .HK and .TW with competitive prices.
Do you have any information about the 2 domain names or could you please give me some suggestion so I can start with?

Answer by NiceNIC.NET Valued Customer Arick who is with www.favoriteuniversity.com:

I am not an expert in internet marketing and my opinion could be misleading. However I have few ideas which may be useful to establish NiceNIC.NET as famous Registrar for specific domains.

I am bit lost because I didn't know how NiceNIC.NET want to be famous for. As comparison, NC is famous because they evaluate their strong competitor (GD) and establish themselves as better company:
1. They want people think the company provide cheap domain along with interesting features.
2. They also wish to be famous for being simple and did not 'Too Aggressive' (bombard customer with too much offers). They want to be simple and not offer too much 'useless' add-on while purchasing their services. (GD offer too much add-on while purchasing domain/services. NC understand so many people didn't like it and use it in their marketing technique)
3. Lately NC want to be famous for protecting 'the freedom' by standing against SOPA and PIPA. GD is supporting PIPA and SOPA.
Not purely politic but I think NC is somewhat quite smart in gathering trust and sympathy from public. Politic and public policy seem affect public in choosing domain Registrar.
4. NC and GD was competing in almost all aspect. In simple and little aspect, NC were decorating their site to be 'faster' and 'easier'. They were using strong and well managed database which make it very easy and fast to retrieve query about domain.
People just need to enter the domain and their result will be displayed in seconds.
I would say they were not only competing in major things but also in smallest things such as 'comforting user whom using their services' and 'well managed domain management'.
I am using both of their domain management and it seems NC provide quite better management.
GD has great domain management but I think they advertise too much their service in domain management by requiring the customer to open many 'less useful' pages just to perform what they really want. By opening too many pages there would be lots of impression in featuring their services. The domain management in GD is fast and easy but NC has better stuff. Off-course my opinion could be wrong.
5. NC is very active in helping people migrating domains to their company. All domain Registrars have to do this in order to regain trust and get lots of revenue. To stimulate people in migrating the domain, they offer lower prices. They cover the loss (if any) by promoting another services such as SSL certificate and web hosting.

About NiceNIC, I am not quite sure on what it want to be famous for. I was thinking NiceNIC.NET may be suitable to be:
1. 'Nice' domain Registrar.
It is possible to rank NiceNIC.NET as 'very nice' domain Registrar by offering lucrative services.
I didn't talk about Price. Not yet. I was referring about 'support staff'. Maybe NiceNIC.NET could be famous for being 'Nice' by hiring 'nice' staffs whom ready to answer any questions nicely.
I do clearly understand hiring lots of staff mean lots of expenses.
2. Quickest domain Registrar in setting up domain to be used with various services such as:
- BlogSpot and WordPress Integration (Custom domain)
- CMS Self Hosted Integration/ Hosting integration (Self Hosted WordPress, Joomla, etc)
- ClickBank, Amazon and other marketing services (almost same as above)
3. Domain Registrar which provide simple interface and greatest features.
Simple interface is better rather than complicated GUI (using Jquery might be better than standard plain HTML).

I was thinking NiceNIC.NET could be 'the biggest domain Registrar' in Asia just by doing few simple things above. I am not an expert in marketing so my opinion could be wrong. However, most of the times, other Registrar's interface is somewhat too 'classic' and complicated'. NiceNIC.NET has better interface and 'brand'.

I do apology for talking 'off topic' too much.

About .HK and .TW, I would start with these things:

1. Offer lower prices or multiple products in single purchase.

For .HK domain registration:

https://nicenic.net/domain/hk-domain-registration.php

Another company 'E*' offer .HK at lower prices. It seems they were really proud as 'the only company which provide .HK at the lowest possible price'. Actually the price is not that low. They only wish to be famous as .HK domain Registrar and keep the trophy.
NiceNIC.NET in other hand has competitive price. The only way to compete is by providing better stuffs. 'E*' provide free email for the domain. Maybe NiceNIC.NET could increase the price little bit but offer free hosting for specified times.

For .TW domain registration:

https://nicenic.net/domain/tw-domain-registration.php

NiceNIC.NET definitely provide greatest prices in .TW domain which is nice.

2. Most people wasn't aware of the .HK and .TW domain names.
I think people only think high of .COM domain name.
To make people start registering .HK and .TW domain name, here are few 'ideas':
1. Most people would only buy domain names that give them benefits.
Basically you just need to change their mind and make them believe if .HK and .TW domain name is very important.
To do that, you just need to develop .HK and .TW domain name to win the competition in specified keyword.
Example:
- Creating 'CheapDomain.HK' to win the competition in => "Cheapest .HK domain".
- Creating 'CheapDomain.TW' to win the competition in => "Cheapest .TW domain".

Building blog to win the competition that keywords are not quite hard (but still need lots of efforts and time).

NiceNIC.NET should target the global competition for that keyword (via Google.com). However, winning in Local competition is more than enough (google.hk/Google.tw/Baidu)

By doing this, NiceNIC would be well-known and famous in local market and gain lots of revenue for anyone whom trying to register those domains.

I really like this idea especially when NiceNIC.NET would help local customer setting up .HK and .TW to be used with various services in just few minutes.

After all setup, NiceNIC.NET may creating thread in local/International forum stating ".HK and .TW are two domain which are easy to be ranked and developed'.
Basically you just need to say "Surely .COM is best but we already know if it is hard to get the name in .COM. Instead of using long keywords in .COM it is better to use shorter keyword in another domain (such as .TW and .HK) which is easy to be remembered and receives high exposure in search Engine.

2. Creating another 'term' for .HK and .TW
While COM is interpreted as 'Commercial', you may wish to call TW as Twain or Twitter.
.TW as Twain mean a site that is dedicated to rank another site.
.TW as Twitter mean the domain will make anyone looks professional if they shorten their Twitter account URL using .TW
Example:
NiceNIC.TW => NiceNIC Twitter account.
DigitalPoint.TW => Twitter account DigitalPoint.
Love.TW => latest Compilation of tweets about 'Love' in twitter.

It seems .TW would be great choice for anyone if NiceNIC.NET manage to make the domain popular for anything which is related with Twitter.

There are two POSITIVE things:

- The requirements to register .HK, .TW and .CN:

   It needs no complicated documents especially for citizens/organizations outside China, i.e. no extra information/materials required for .TW/.COM.TW domain registration, only Passport/ID/Organization Number required to register .HK domain name, for China .CN domain registration, NiceNIC.NET offer FREE Trustee/Proxy Service (https://nicenic.net/domain/cn-domain-registration/). 

   It's definitely FAR EASIER beyond your imagination.

- The prices of .HK, .TW and .CN domain names:

  WORLD-LOWEST pricing on all domain names operated by Registry of CNNIC, i.e. .CN, .COM.CN, .中国(.China) etc.

  COMPETITIVE pricing on both .HK and .TW domain names.

To summarize the most important things, here are what I really want to say:
1. Make all people believe if .HK and .TW is precious domain that receive great exposure and suitable for many things.
Scenario:
- Build blog in .HK and .TW to market NiceNIC and to make other believe if .HK and .TW are very great for blogging and business. NiceNIC.NET may recieve high exposure and sales by doing this.
Difficulty: Could be hard until Very hard. Just remember, any domain could dominate any keyword in Search Engine. The optimization is what make the difference. SE seems give more priority for well known domain name. However, there is nothing impossible in this world (at least for domination in SE)

2. Interpret .TW as Twitter related stuffs while .HK as Hacker.
Scenario for .TW:
Suggest and help anyone to use custom domain for their Twitter account. It is fairly easy to be done because it involve only Domain forwarding.
Difficulty: Just one simple click away. Very easy.
For anyone who is willing to use .TW to write blog about tweets from Twitter, quickly help them setup the blog.
Difficulty: Could be Very Easy.

Scenario for .HK:
For anyone who purchases the domain, give them a hosting (and setup WordPress automatically if necessary).
Most people who are buying .HK because it represents Hacker, they must be aware on how to setup sites/blogs/forum. So it means they would be not going to ask help in setting up domain. However, be ready to quickly help them if they need it.

Please understand I am writing this while I am about to sleep (it is really hard for me too sleep. maybe it is because there are lots of things in my mind (mainly about PHP codes/server related managements) at the moment. I have hard time to sleep if I think too much or if I am a bit excited). It is almost midnight in Indonesia.
I wish all the sentences are readable. I have checked my previous posts in DP and it seems I need to learn more on how to write well structured English sentences. 
I do apology if what I have written above make you sad or angry. I write it based on my own limited knowledge. Kindly inform me if there is anything which is 'inappropriate'. I was thinking Helen is just like my 'Senior/Supervisor'. 
I was thinking you should communicate with professional in Internet and Domain Marketing to get better answers for your questions. Asking me is just like 'asking how to drive car to a someone who never saw a car in his life'. 
However, I am always happy to communicate and answer any of your questions.

* Thank Arick (website: www.favoriteuniversity.com) for his time and PROFESSIONAL & ingenious opinion.

Faithfully,
Fonnie
NiceNIC.NET New Editor
ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar
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Dear Valued NiceNIC Customer/Partner/Reseller,

NiceNIC - ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar is gearing up for another fantastic .CN promotion SPONSORed DIRECTLY by Registry of CNNIC, to celebrate 2013 Chinese traditional festivals of Middle Autumn(September 19th, namely August 15th Lunar Calendar) and National Day(October 1st).

Promo Starts: September 12, 2013 at 02:00 UTC

Promo Ends: October 11, 2013 at 12:00 UTC

Promo Name: $0.83 Chinese .CN SUPER PROMO - NiceNIC Sponsored by CNNIC
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                      Less than $1 Chinese.CN

Promo Rule: Applies to NEW Chinese.CN/(Chinese Characters).CN Domain Registrations

                    Applies to FIRST 2 YEARS

[Chinese.CN = (Chinese Characters).CN = 中文.CN = (Simplified Chinese).CN 

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Account Tier/Promo Price:

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NiceNIC .NET Team
ICANN & CNNIC Accredited Registrar

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TOP 32/50 new gTLDs signed by ICANN are Chinese domain names

Source:
https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/viewstatus

1. 天主教
4. 香格里拉
5. 中信
7. 淡马锡
8. 世界
10. 嘉里大酒店
11. 商店
15. 网址
16. 大拿
17. 网店
19. 一号店
20. 點看
21. 八卦
23. 集团
28. 网址
29. 新闻
30. 嘉里
31. 网店
32. 政府
35. 中文网
36. 大众汽车
38. 商标
39. 手机
40. 游戏
41. 工行
42. 网络
43. 盛贸饭店
45. 微博
46. 公益
47. 商城
49. 深圳
50. 我爱你
... ... and more Chinese new gTLDs

What do you think of this phenomenon? 

CNNIC released the 32nd Statistical Report on China Internet Development - NiceNIC News Center

CNNIC released the 32nd Statistical Report on China Internet Development - NiceNIC News Center

Chinese Netizen Growth Entered into a Steady State
Application Hotspot Transferred to Mobile Phone Products

On July 17th, 2013, China Internet Network Information Center(CNNIC) released the 32nd Statistical Report on China Internet Development ("the Report"). The Report shows that by the end of June 2013, Chinese netizens reached 591 million, with the Internet penetration being 44.1%. During the first half of this year, mobile phones as the Internet terminals made an eye-catching play, because it not only became an important source of new netizens but also performed well in such network applications as instant messaging and e-business.

Chinese Netizen Growth Entered into a Steady State, Mobile Phones Became No. 1 Source of New Netizens


The Report shows that by the end of June 2013, the number of netizens in China has reached 591 million, increasing by 26.56 million compared with the end of 2012. The Internet penetration was 44.1%, increasing by 2% compared to that at the end of 2012. Of the new Chinese netizens, up to 70.0% of them used mobile phones to surf the Internet, outnumbering those Chinese netizens who use other equipment to surf the Internet. It is worth mentioning that the Internet penetration was quite fast in the rural areas of China. Of the new netizens in the semiannual period, Chinese rural netizens accounted for 54.4%.

Meantime, the number of mobile phone netizens in China has reached 464 million by the end of June 2013, increasing by 43.79 million compared with the end of 2012. Netizens of using mobile phones rose to 78.5%. Popularity of the 3G, development of wireless networks, and innovation of mobile phone application greatly facilitated the rapid growth of Chinese mobile phone netizens.

In comparison to the end of 2012, the Chinese user scale had increased by 14.0%, 18.9%, 15.7% and 12.0% respectively in the Chinese mobile phone network music, mobile phone network video, mobile phone network game and mobile phone network literature, maintaining a high growth rate.


As an Internet application with rapid rise in recent years, the e-business application developed rapidly at the mobile phone terminal. Specifically, the Chinese netizen scale in the mobile phone online payment grew by a large margin. The Report shows that the Chinese online payment user has reached 244 million, increasing by 23.73 million in a half year, with a growth rate of 10.8%. Specifically, the number of mobile phones online payment user rose by 43.0% over the year 2012. In addition, large-scale growth was seen in the mobile phone shopping, mobile phone group purchase and mobile phone online banking.



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1&2 Character and 3&4 Numeric .Asia Domains Available Soon -NiceNIC.NET

1&2 Character and 3&4 Numeric .Asia Domains Available Soon

NiceNIC.NET - ICANN & .ASIA Accredited Registrar

DotAsia announced today(2013-07-24 14:35:37) the release of, never before registered, 1&2 character and 3&4 numeric .Asia domains. Premium domains such as '8.asia', '28.asia', and 'X.asia', will be available for registration based on a multi-phase release plan starting from July 30th, 2013, while 3&4 numeric domains such as '2013.asia', '888.asia', and '777.asia' will be up for grabs through auctions starting August 2013.


We have selected Rightofthedot.COM as our partner to help the registry facilitate and manage the release process and auctions. In tandem with this email, we have also put out a press release regarding the launch process, as well as announcement of this new partnership. You can read more about it here.


Of the collection of 1&2 character .Asia domains, 133 domains are currently "parked" by the registry and forwarded to our partner, Rightofthedot's parking pages to solicit interest and leads. 73 domains representing Asia Pacific ccTLDs are reserved and require government consensus for activation, and 8 domains are reserved for registry use. Please see here for a complete list of parked, reserved and other 1&2 character domains.


How to Apply for Premium 1&2 Character .Asia Domains
Please submit SR1 application through EPP(NiceNIC.NET - ICANN & .ASIA Accredited Registrar) to apply for 1&2 character .Asia domains. During the Sunrise and Landrush period, the 133 parked domains will be un-parked and freed up for SR1 command application along with the rest of the group.
PLEASE NOTE, once the registry opens for Sunrsie and Landrush for the 1&2 character domains (duration approx 2 weeks, see below for detailed dates), these domains will come up as "available" during domain check to allow for SR1 submissions. However, they will NOT be available for registration through the general availability process. A possible quick solution may be to put these domain names on a registrar in-house "reserved name list" during the time of Sunrise and Landrush so that the domains do not come up accidentally as "available" during regular customer domain check.


1&2 Character Policies and Release Process
The 1&2 character premium .Asia domains will be released through four segments: the Pioneer Domains Program, Sunrise, Landrush and Public Auctions Phases. Please review 1&2 character release policy here.
1&2 Character Release Dates
Pioneer Domains Program
Opening: Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Closing: Thursday, October 17, 2013
Sunrise (approx 1 week)
Opening: Tuesday, Oct 22, 2013
Closing: Wednesday, Oct 30, 2013
Landrush (approx 1 week)
Opening: Tuesday, Nov 5, 2013
Closing: Wednesday, Nov 13, 2013
Public Auctions Phase
Opening: Tuesday, Dec 3, 2013
* More information available on the Public Auctions at a later date
1&2 Character Associated Fees
Pioneer Domains Program

• Application Fee (non-refundable): US$5,000 (each proposal will require an application fee and prior acknowledgment and acceptance of relevant terms and conditions, as well as be subjected to a Pioneer Challenge Process)
• Marketing Deposit of US$10,000 upon successful application (applicant will need to spend US$10,000 on promoting the domain in order to receive refund on the marketing deposit).

Sunrise

• Application Fee: US$1,000 (non refundable)
• Single application, non contested: US$1,000 + $20 two-year registration fee
• Multiple applications, auction domain: US$1,000 + Auction fee + $20 two- year registration fee

Landrush

• No Application Fee
• Single application: $1,000 + $20 two-year registration fee
• Multiple applications, auction domain: Auction Fee (note starting bid at $1,000) + $20 two-year registration fee

3&4 Numeric .Asia domains
3&4 character numeric .Asia domains are available via public auctions only. These domains are not available for registration via EPP commands. More information on the 3&4 Numeric .Asia domain auctions at a later date.


Sincerely,
DotAsia Organisation Ltd

http://NiceNIC.NET - ICANN & .ASIA Accredited Registrar