Chinese P2P Company Acquires New Domain Name P2P.CN - NiceNIC.NET

China's P2P Financial Information Service Company Ltd. has purchased a new domain name P2P.cn for CNY 5 million.

P2P Financial Information Service (Shenzhen) signed a domain purchase agreement with Tao Chengcheng, owner of the P2P.cn domain name.

 

P2P Financial Information Service said that the transaction will help the company's development strategy; effectively promote its development of Internet finance-related industries and core businesses; and gradually divest non-core businesses. The company will optimize its business product structure; better focus on the development of core businesses; and improve operating efficiency.

Meanwhile, the domain name transaction will not bring substantial effect to the production or management of the company.

At the beginning of May 2015, Duolun Industry renamed itself to P2P Financial Information Service Co., Ltd.

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Here comes .Sex domain - NiceNIC.NET

Trademark holders can now claim domain names ending in .sex.

Dot SexICM Registry has started the sunrise for its latest adult-themed domain name, .sex. .Sex joins .xxx, .adult and .porn in the company’s stable of top level domain names.

As with .adult and .porn, there will be a unique Sunrise B and Domain Matching period.

The traditional sunrise is now underway and will end October 1. During this period, brand holders must have a mark registered with the Trademark Clearinghouse in order to claim a corresponding .sex domain name.

The combined Sunrise B/Domain Matching phase will run October 5 through October 30. During this phase, companies that paid to block a .xxx domain during the .xxx sunrise B blocking program can claim a domain. Also, anyone who owns a .xxx domain name can register the corresponding .sex domain name. Companies can register an .xxx domain during September and still qualify for domain matching.

General availability starts November 4.

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LLLL.com domain Beloved by China - NiceNIC.NET

Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com

Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales.

During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one another. For years, values had stagnated in the $15 – $50 range; but suddenly prices at auction and in the forums began to rise, climbing 10 – 20 times higher as word spread. Mailing-list domain brokers who wouldn’t have been caught dead featuring LLLL.com’s in 2014 are now listing them prominently and hungry for more.

Yet certain kinds of LLLL.com domains were valuable before this spike in the Chinese market. For instance, the CVCV pattern of alternating consonants and vowels has long been sought after. Coincidentally, the West prizes precisely those letter patterns China disdains – and vice versa.Chinese buyers and their intermediaries state a preference for LLLL domains excluding A, E, I, O, U, and even V. Meanwhile, the Western retail market sets a premium on pronounceability, which almost always requires vowels. Moreover, because letters such as “Z” and “Q” (beloved by China) start few English words, LLLLs built from those letters are unlikely to serve as English acronyms; therefore they find little retail demand in the USA. In other words, the Chinese LLLL market and the non-Chinese LLLL market barely overlap at all. And while values in the former have skyrocketed, prices in the latter remain more or less as they were last year.

NameJet’s top expired domain auction last week, KIRI.com ($9.3k), as well as AZEA.com ($2.1k) illustrate the type of LLLL.com sales we’ve seen for a long time and which, I’d say, are oriented to the Western market. These two are brand names meant to be spoken aloud outside China. Even QIME.com ($1.7k), whose Chinese buyer seems to be breaking my “rule”, may only be a CVCV in a nominal sense. My guess is that it’s Pinyin: “Qi Me”. SZVR.com ($1.6k) is a departure from the “no V” habit, but it’s possible that “VR” (meaning virtual reality) has entered Chinese as a loan word. That I don’t know. As for RSRV.com ($4.9k), well, it’s probably an English word stripped of its vowels. Reserve Petroleum Co. uses it as their stock ticker. And a Belgian clothing store sees it not as “reserve” but as “reservoir”. For all I know, Ammar Kubba was thinking of RVs when he bought the thing.

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Good Company Name and Matching .COM Domain - NiceNIC.NET

Venture capitalist makes the argument for picking a good name and owning the matching.com.

Y Combinator co-founder Paul Graham has published an essay on his site about why it’s important to get a good company name and its matching .com.

Is it still important in a world of apps? Graham writes:

"If you have a US startup called X and you don’t have x.com, you should probably change your name.

The reason is not just that people can’t find you. For companies with mobile apps, especially, having the right domain name is not as critical as it used to be for getting users. The problem with not having the .com of your name is that it signals weakness. Unless you’re so big that your reputation precedes you, a marginal domain suggests you’re a marginal company. Whereas (as Stripe shows) having x.com signals strength even if it has no relation to what you do."

The Stripe story is particularly interesting.

Graham argues that if you named your company x and you don’t own x.com, you should change your name. He points out there are plenty of good names for purchase out there, you just have to give it some effort. If you aren’t good at naming, find someone who is.

The essay finishes with some stats about top Y Combinator companies:

"100% of the top 20 YC companies by valuation have the .com of their name. 94% of the top 50 do. But only 66% of companies in the current batch have the .com of their name. Which suggests there are lessons ahead for most of the rest, one way or another."

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Back from Vacation - NiceNIC.NET

Posted by Andrew Allemann on August 10, 2015

I’m back from summer vacation, and now it’s time to gear up for fall.

I’m back from a two week vacation in Seattle.

There are a lot of domain companies in Seattle, and if you’re feeling left out that I didn’t visit you…this was a true vacation. I negotiated a couple hours of blogging time with my family each day, but company visits would have been asking too much. Instead, we spent our time camping, touring the Theo chocolate factory, visiting parks, etc.

An exception was a trip to DomainSherpa HQ in Bainbridge Island. It was a big highlight for me, as we saw a bald eagle, sea lion and otters in Mike Cyger’s “backyard”.

Here are some things I thought about on my vacation:

1. If I could live in one U.S. city other than Austin, it would be Seattle. To be fair, I typically visit during the good summer months. I don’t know how I’d do in the winter. But damn, it’s a beautiful and fun city. I’m not the only one who thinks this…I thought the Austin housing market was hot, but it’s nothing compared to Seattle.

2. News blogging never takes breaks. My family kindly gave me an hour or two each morning to get some stories up. Last week was also earnings week for many public domain companies, which meant some afternoon blogging.

3. I always feel like I’m a couple hours behind when I travel to the West Coast. By the time you get up and boot up the laptop, it’s lunchtime in New York.

Back to work…

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Facebook says .LOL is dead - NiceNIC.NET

Facebook says LOL is dead, but the domain name comes out tomorrow. Get ready to LOL on August 11, 2015.

Uniregistry will launch the .lol top level domain name in general availability on Tuesday. Annual registration costs appear to be about $30 retail, but many registrars are offering discounted first year registrations.

I’ve made it a point to never type LOL in a message, because, c’mon, do you ever really laugh out loud when IM’ing with someone?

I’m not the only one. Facebook has posted some research suggesting LOL is on its way out, prompting headlines today such as ‘Haha’ has killed ‘lol’ and No one says LOL anymore.

But no one applied for the .haha top level domain, so it’s .lol this time around.

Also coming up this week for new domains: Early access for Donuts domain names .dog, .theater, .taxi, .hockey and .run.

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Google uses ABC.xyz now part of Alphabet - NiceNIC.NET

Google announced a new holding company called Alphabet today, and it’s using the domain name ABC.xyz.

This is a huge win for Daniel Negari’s .xyz, and new top level domains in general.

Google will be part of Alphabet, but some of the company’s more long term bets will be separate companies operating under Alphabet.

Reading Larry Page’s intro note on ABC.xyz, I couldn’t help but compare it to Hooli.xyz, the fictitious company from HBO’s Silicon Valley that is modeled somewhat after Google. (As it turns out, abc.xyz links to hooli.xyz.)

I don’t think ABC.xyz will be used much since it’s just the holding company’s name, but it could possibly become the email address for some employees. It will also likely be used for all investor information and announcements in the future.

I suspect the ABC.xyz domain name sold for six figures.

Alphabet.com is owned by BMW. ABC.com is owned, of course, by the entertainment company.

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