Cheap Domain name registration prices have spawned a new industry

Because of the need for the CN domain name popularization, domain name registration price in recent years a drop again, from hundreds of yuan to the way to dozens of yuan, once known as "cabbage Price", "hit the price." Especially cnnic March 7 this year to carry out "CN domain Name 1 yuan experience activity", the CN domain name registration price is reduced to only a symbolic charge of 1 yuan, which also promoted the CN domain name registration number from 1.8 million to 5.3 million, completed the past ten years of nearly twice times the total registered.

Low price registered high price sold

Cheap Domain name registration prices have spawned a new industry.

Mr. Zheng has been specializing in the CN domain in recent years. He registered in 2003, a single English letter domain name has sold 13, earning nearly million. Among them, f.cn and other 3 domain names are sold a high price of 98,000 yuan.

Nowadays, there are many people like Mr. Zheng. They first put some well-known company name or similar appellation to their hands, and then wait for the other party to buy back at a high price, to earn huge profits.

Google, which officially entered the Chinese market in 2005, has redeemed google.com.cn and google.cn two CN domain names in millions of dollars, setting the highest price in the history of the CN domain name transaction. CN Domain Investor Beijing National Network company boss also became a millionaire overnight.

Profit and risk coexist

Generally speaking, enterprises to recover the lost domain name there are only two ways: first, through the court proceedings or domain name dispute resolution, two direct to the preemptive registration of the purchase. Google in the domain name dispute procedures to resolve invalid circumstances, can only spend a lot of money redemption. But for the general investors, the investment domain name is not discriminating, need to bear certain risks.

According to the Beijing Sheng law firm's lead lawyer Yu Guofu, not every company's domain name is registered can own it, for large companies may not be able to register a profit. "Google's CN domain name was registered a few years ago, when Google did not operate in China, so the arbitration agency does not support the company to retake the domain name, and similar to the company that has been in China for many years, such as Microsoft, if you go to malicious registration of its domain name, According to CNNIC's current domain name dispute resolution, it is impossible to succeed. "Moreover, the current Chinese CN domain name investment lacks a perfect market trading system, most transactions for private transactions, may lead to fraud and other criminal cases."

Internet industry veteran Wangyun suggested registrant: "Domain name in nature is a kind of identification, a surrogate." The registration domain name and buys the clothes, suits is the best. The netizen should according to the actual need, the reasonable registration conforms to own need domain name. ”

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It giants scramble for domain names

Google, which officially entered the Chinese market in 2005, has redeemed google.com.cn and google.cn two CN domain names in millions of dollars, setting the highest price in the history of the CN domain name transaction. CN Domain Investor Beijing National Network company boss also became a millionaire overnight.

At the end of 2006, Dell filed an arbitration petition for the "del.cn" domain name, which it hoped would be owned by the company. However, the China international Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission ruled that for the "DELL" and "Del" this very simple letter combination, the general computer users will not be confused. Dell was therefore defeated by the "del.cn" domain name of the registered unit Zhejiang Yiwu Yong-Zhong Socks Co., Ltd.

At home, China Telecom has also launched a domain name battle with Tianma company. Mediated by the court, China Telecom eventually paid back the domain name at a very expensive price.

China International Trade Arbitration Commission domain name dispute Resolution Center in recent years resolved a number of CN domain name disputes. A large number of international giants, including Coca-Cola and Disney, have successfully retracted their Chinese through arbitration. CN domain name.

Since the beginning of 2006, Microsoft IE7.0 Browser announced the support of Chinese. cn domain name, many multinational giants realize the great market value of Chinese, CN, have started the Enterprise domain name scramble.

-Anecdotes

China, South Korea vie for "dragon Boat Festival. cn"

On the eve of the 2006 Dragon Boat Festival, the Chinese official website of CN officially opened. A year-long China-rok "dragon Boat Festival, CN" Network competition officially ended. The Dragon Boat Festival, CN has also become the first Chinese domain name of the traditional festival culture website.

The previous year, "Dragon Boat Festival, cn" Domain name by a Korean company to register. The issue has aroused widespread concern after it was spread on the internet. Later, 58 with the city Network President Yiu Jingbo to 30,000 dollars to buy back the domain name, to avoid the Dragon Boat Festival. CN lost the embarrassment of exotic. Yiu Jingbo will "dragon Boat Festival, cn" Domain name free of charge to Hubei Zigui government, so that it returned to the Dragon Boat Festival traditional cradle of arms.