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Mutual funds investing in domain names are still rare in China, but this morning I came across one which I find very interesting. First of all, the organizer says that their first fund has completed. The fund invested in a 4N .com domain name and sold it within 2.5 months for 1m CNY, yielding...

The most important factor behind the recent stabilisation of the Chinese economy seems to be the sharp turnaround in real estate investment. Investment in real estate was up 6.2 per cent in Q1 2016, after rising just one per cent in 2015. Coming into 2016, most analysts had predicted a decline...

Minds + Machines today reported a 2015 loss of $10 million and further outlined its “transformative” restructuring and China strategy. It’s the second full year of operating results M+M has posted since its first new gTLDs went live, and they’re not encouraging. Revenue for accounting purposes...

India has replaced China as top destination for foreign direct investment by attracting $63 billion worth FDI projects in 2015, says a report. "India was the highest ranked country by capital investment in 2015, with $63 billion-worth of FDI projects announced," according to fDi Intelligence, a...

The biggest concern with a Chinese economic downturn is the impact that it will have on the rest of the world. As companies reduce spending and hunker down during the economic storm domain valuations will be the recipient of a perfect storm of less demand and massively greater supply courtesy of...

With its ranking going up by three places, India has now been ranked sixth among the world's 10 largest manufacturing countries The country previously held the 9th rank. It also said that the quarterly index of industrial production ( IIP) shows 1 per cent growth of manufacturing output in the...

Over 53% of all new gTLD’s are registered to domain holders in China. Only 10.8% of all new gTLD’s are registered to Domain holders in the United States. According to stats newly complied by ntldstats.com, who has now broken down new gTLD registrants by the country where the domain name is...

China has been the focal point of many financial analysts in the past 18 months. The Asian giant and 2nd biggest economy in the world, has changed by leaps and bounds in the years since the House of Representatives blocked the export of satellite technology to China. Those were the years of...

Foshan DiYong Network Co. Ltd, a domain name registrar in China has decided to change their domain name, from 72e.net to the new gTLD 72.win. .Win is owned and operated by Famous Four Media, and Richard Downs, VP of Sales at Famous Four Media had this to say in the PR: “We are over the moon...

According to Bloomberg, China has a huge demand for “good brains” and is now offering competitive salaries. And that’s a great thing, as these US-educated workers will attempt to shift the world’s 2nd largest economy back on track. In the world of Chinese domain market sales, nothing much has...

12,000 .IN domain names were registered during the weekend. Chinese Premium equivalents of .IN domains are being hand registered in mass quantities. .IN is the ccTLD of India. On Friday, there were about 35,000 domain names variations available. (LLLL.IN – No A, E, I, O, U or V) On Monday there...

From an insider’s perspective, Colin Campbell thinks Chinese investor’s preference for short, numeric names is very reasonable. “I have seen in China a number of the short-character letters “nn” or “LLL”; they’ve been trading very well in the marketplace. In fact they are almost liquid to the...

Chinese registrants helped .com surge toward the end of 2015 as they registered millions of short domain names. Here are the top 5 registrars from October, the most recent official numbers available: 1. eName 1,060,158 2. GoDaddy* 859,815 3. HiChina 658,594 4. HangZhou AiMing Network Co...

I sold a few domain names to a few Chinese buyers in November and December and it was all together a pleasant experience. They always use more than 2 email accounts in every email message they send. They always reply from a different email address than the one they first contacted you. They...

Chinese domain sales are rebounding in terms of volume, and we might see a jump in prices short term. One thing is certain: the buyers aren’t interested in silly, long combinations of 6N, 7N, or even 8N and 9N anymore; the focus is 3 to 4 digits, along with LL and LLL .com domains. Domain Gang

Verisign reported its earnings for the 4th quarter of 2015 and financial results for 2015. In the earnings call today, Verisign made some interesting comments about that huge volume of .Com domain name registration we saw from Asia the 4th quarter of 2015: Bottom line Verisign expects those...

The Chinese stock market has been down a staggering $1.8 trillion dollars in 2016 and there is no indication of how much longer oversold stocks will continue to sell. Stock pushers in the Chinese stock market created the type of oversupply that definitely is reflected in other markets...

The Chinese economic indexes are at their lowest point since 2014, after Shanghai’s composite closed down 6.4% on Tuesday. China’s central bank injected 360 billion yuan into money markets, attempting to sustain liquidity just as the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday looms ahead. An interesting...

Multi-billionaire investor, George Soros, is predicting a “hard landing” for China, thanks to its economy that’s in deflation. On the other hand, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. says investors are overstating the slowdown’s impact on the world and that things will be ok. At stake is $7.8 trillion...

Wu Maoqing, a 32-year-old banker in Beijing, lost so much money in China’s stock markets last summer that he describes himself as “scarred” by the experience. But in October, he discovered a new asset class he hopes will help make the money back—short domain names. Since then, Wu has invested...