55BBS was a Chinese lifestyle shopping website founded in 2004. It was acquired by CNET in 2008. Reported here CNET (NSDQ: CNET) Networks, in the process of being bought by CBS Corp…
Category: China
Xiaomi founder, on the importance of a domain name
Xiaomi Corporation is a Chinese electronics company founded by Lei Jun in 2010 and headquartered in Beijing. Lox posted a link to a video of the founder of Xiaomi on the importance…
One investor asks,”4L CHIPS: Wasn’t it the best example of pump and dump?
In 2015 the emergence of so called ugly 4L.com names started their rise. People started posting wanted threads on Namepros, “Looking for 4L.coms no a,e,i,o,u,v.” The prices started to pick up pretty…
China declares ICO’s illegal
The Financial Times wrote an article today on China declaring ICO’s (Initial Coin Offerings) illegal. China has called for a halt to raising money via the ICO route. Focusing on the fraud…
If you want to post online in China, you need to use your real name
Nikhil Sonnad published an article on QZ.com that China will now demand users give their real identity while commenting anywhere online. Certain services and websites have already had to require real identities…
Chinese Are 9 of Top 10 Biggest Registrants of New gTLD’s; Top 10 Own Over 10% Of All New gTLD’s
I was looking at ntldstats.com checking out the top registrants of new gTLD’s and of the top 10 biggest registrants of new gTLD’s 9 are from China. Moreover the top 10 registrants…
Selling domains in China
ChopChop Domains published a video on their YouTube channel that delves into selling domains in China. The video details the adventure from March 2014 to January 2017. Besides domain names it seems…