Chinese Song Bird

[Rubber Duck]

http://cnnic.cn/html/Dir/2008/02/25/4995.htm

Mr. Peter Dengate Thrush, Chair of Board of Directors for The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), paid an official visit to China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on February 19, 2008. Director General of CNNIC, Mr. Mao Wei showed Mr. Thrush around CNNIC and its DNS infrastructure.


Mr. Mao Wei gave Mr. Thrush an elaborate introduction on China's development on the Internet, the growth of .cn registration and the allocation of address resources in China. Mr. Thrush was impressed when he heard the number of .cn registrations has surpassed 10 million at the beginning of 2008, and predicted that it is only a matter of time that the .cn registrations overtake the .de registrations, which will position CNNIC as the No. 1 ccTLD. "CNNIC has done a wonderful job," Mr. Thrush said, "no wonder CNNIC is the leader of China's Internet community."


As for the hotly-discussed Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) development, Mr. Thrush learnt that the Internet and IDN have had a major impact on Chinese society and culture, and Chinese is widely used in China as a tool for surfers surfing on the Internet. So, to speed up the development of Chinese Domain Name (CDN) will facilitate the penetration of the Internet in China. CNNIC has been making great efforts to develop the technical standards and its deployment of CDN. Mr. Thrush acknowledged the important contributions made by CNNIC on IDNs and promised the Fast-track process of IDN ccTLD will be fast. Mr. Thrush said ICANN would like to enhance its cooperation and communication with CNNIC; he also encouraged CNNIC to play a bigger role in the international arena.

[JamesZ]

Many domainers in China have stronger faith in .cn than .com. Which one will eventually win will be interesting to watch.
Some days ago, I offered exchange of one of my .com domain with a Chinese domainer's equivalent .cn name and got rejected. It is not a special name, just an ordinary one.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by JamesZ

Many domainers in China have stronger faith in .cn than .com. Which one will eventually win will be interesting to watch.
Some days ago, I offered exchange of one of my .com domain with a Chinese domainer's equivalent .cn name and got rejected. It is not a special name, just an ordinary one.

Yes, it will be interesting and there may be no clear answer.

Domainers don't decide the fate of extensions. It is large companies and flagship sites that do that.

[JamesZ]

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

Domainers don't decide the fate of extensions. It is large companies and flagship sites that do that.

Yes, and interestingly, small companies tend to use .com because they think that makes them look more global, and large international companies tend to use .cn because they think that makes them look more local.

[touchring]

Originally Posted by JamesZ

Many domainers in China have stronger faith in .cn than .com. Which one will eventually win will be interesting to watch.
Some days ago, I offered exchange of one of my .com domain with a Chinese domainer's equivalent .cn name and got rejected. It is not a special name, just an ordinary one.

The funny thing is that Domainers are not always right (in fact, judging by .tv and .biz, they are usually wrong).

It is the end user that ultimately decides which extension will take off. Domainers can speculate in their own world, bidding up prices, like Dot Mobi and Dot Info, but if the end user does not adopt, everything crashes back to earth.

[Giant]

Originally Posted by JamesZ

Many domainers in China have stronger faith in .cn than .com.

How many?

[Giant]

Originally Posted by JamesZ

Some days ago, I offered exchange of one of my .com domain with a Chinese domainer's equivalent .cn name and got rejected.

Not surprised. China has 1.3 billion people.

[Rubber Duck]

Originally Posted by touchring

The funny thing is that Domainers are not always right (in fact, judging by .tv and .biz, they are usually wrong).

It is the end user that ultimately decides which extension will take off. Domainers can speculate in their own world, bidding up prices, like Dot Mobi and Dot Info, but if the end user does not adopt, everything crashes back to earth.

Absolutely right, and experience has shown that the so called Domaining Guru's are as capable of getting it wrong as everyone else, indeed perhaps even more so because they are so convinced of their own competence.

Looking back at the so called "Train Crash Thread" between Duck and "The King", it was rightly named but for the wrong reasons. Rick was completely and utterly wrong and he launched a stampede that has ended in complete disaster, and even now he believes or at least states that he believes his dot Mobi will be worth be money.

If these experts can get is so very wrong over something like dot Mobi, my assertion that have got wrong over IDN because of the ego-centric perspective, is a stone cold certainty.

[261275]

Originally Posted by touchring

The funny thing is that Domainers are not always right (in fact, judging by .tv and .biz, they are usually wrong).

Any big sites that are using .tv where you sit touch? anyone else seeing .tv is picking up strong momentum?

Originally Posted by Rubber Duck

between Duck

Check out yahoo's logo Yahoo!

[bwhhisc]

Originally Posted by 261275

Any big sites that are using .tv where you sit touch? anyone else seeing .tv is picking up strong momentum?

.TV is getting good momentum for professional sports and music websites so far.
They use the logos in advertising and marketing. There are many more...but their .tv
forwards to their .com. They still use it for advertising ie. UFC.tv

Top of heap is NBA.tv, (Pro Basketball) and WEC.tv (World Extreme Cagefighting).

Others you see on TV-
BikeStunts.tv
TNAWrestling.tv
MonsterJam.tv
GOLTV.tv- European Soccer
Music1.tv
NewSongs.tv
RockSongs.tv
RetroMusic.tv
KOTC.tv
not to mention...
SexToysOnline.tv and AssHunter.tv