We are very pleased to report that China's number one internet apparel brand, VANCL, has selected Dot Chinese Online (.在线) with the excellent domain name 凡客.在线. VANCL moved to its Dot Chinese Online domain name on the TLD's first day of availability. VANCL sells in excess of US$1 billion in fashion annually, and exports to more than 100 countries. The Beijing-based company maintains design studios around the world, including China, Spain, Korea and Japan. Similar to brands such as GAP and UNIQLO, the company's business model is one of "affordable luxury" in quality men's, women's and kid's fashions and lifestyle goods. When Boston Consulting Group published its November 2013 report on China’s e-commerce market VANCL was the first brand...

After six years of planning, the essential new Chinese TLDs Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are now in fully-open, worldwide availability! Today at 13:00 UTC, the final milestone -- General Availability, or "GA" for short -- was reached and the top level domains went fully online. within 50 minutes of General Availability, Dot Chinese Online rocketed to the global number 4 position for New gTLDs, and Dot Chinese Website shot to global number 9 for New gTLDs.  This ranking is calculated by the number of Domains Under Management (DUMs). Much has been written about the journey to today's milestone. Howevert we want this post to focus on the present, rather than the past. As of the last minute before GA, the total number of domains in Dot Chinese Online (.在线) totalled 9,803, and the total number of domains in Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) totalled 8,623. According to the global leaderboard, this ranks Dot Chinese Online (.在线) at number 19 globally, and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) at number 21 globally. Pre-GA, these positions were significant: no other non-ASCII TLD was in the global top-50.  Pre-GA, the next ranked non-ASCII TLD (known in the domain industry as an "IDN", or Internationalized Domain Name) was Google's own Japanese TLD, "Dot Minna" (.みんな) -- it means "everyone", and was at the time of writing ranked at global number 52, with 3,455 domains under management. The first IDN TLD to go live, the Arabic "Dot Shabaka" (.شبكة ) was ranked at number 70, with 1,885 domains, and the next two IDN TLDs on the global rankings were .ОНЛАЙН (.online in Russian) with 1,246 domains, with and .САЙТ (.site in Russian) with 619 domains. The first Chinese IDN TLD after Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website was the recently-entered-Sunrise .移动 (.mobile in Chinese), with a total of 293 domains. Our admittedly immodest analysis is that Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website were gratifyingly successful in their lead-up to GA. The results one hour after Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website entered General Availability were much, much better: [ws_table id="2"] News about our launch from around the web was incorrectly reported in the first hour of GA. Due to a calculation error, registry-reserved domain names were included in the total domains under management. While some New gTLD registries have done this in the past, TLD Registry does not do so. The error in calculations was not the fault of the bloggers who reported the news -- fault lies entirely with an incorrect method of calculation done in the heat of the launch. We regret any inconvenience caused.  ...

After six years of planning, the essential new Chinese TLDs Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are now in fully-open, worldwide availability! General Availability (GA) of the two TLDs occured at exactly 13:00 UTC today. We will be reporting in detail at the "GA + 1 hour" mark... check back here soon for analysis of the number of domains in each TLD.

At our inaugural premium domain name auction in Macau on March 21, 2014, we hosted an interesting lunchtime experts panel. The subject we asked our panelists and moderator (DomainIncite's Kevin Murphy) was "The Future of Chinese Domain Names". We invite you to enjoy this discussion! [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1Dg8wprADI&rel=0&w=500] Thank you to our expert panelists, Director Li Qinfeng of the Service Development Center of SCOPSR, Pinky Brand of TLD Registry, Walter Wu of NameRich.cn and Monte Cahn of Right of the Dot. Thanks also, very much, to our moderator Kevin...

其中单个优质域名成交价达到25388美金 澳门2014年3月27日电 – 由“.在线”和“.中文网”注册局域通联达有限公司和域名交易平台Sedo共同承办的首场中文域名拍卖会于3月21日在澳门举行。拍卖会上33个单个域名和域名组合引来了全球多个国家的域名投资商和投资人士争抢。总成交价达到18万2千美金。其中单个域名和域名组合的成交价在2000美金到25388美金不等。 本次域名拍卖会是在澳门现场和Sedo的网上拍卖平台同时举行。参加拍卖的为多个领域中极具价值的单个域名或由多个相关域名绑定而成的组合。 “游戏.在线”成为当日表现最为突出的域名，成交价达到25388美元。另外“赌场.在线”（25000美元），“房地产.在线”（16000美元），“租赁.在线”（15500美元）“比特币.在线”（14300美元）等域名也吸引了参拍者的多轮抢拍。 域通联达首席执行官易书麒表示：“我们的首场拍卖会取得了巨大的成功。展示的域名得到了现场和网上拍卖者的肯定和青睐。现场的50位嘉宾会后均表示对拍卖会和拍卖结果非常满意。我们也很欣慰此次参拍域名能取得如此好的销售成绩。” 域通联达副总裁兼注册商关系总监柏平凯认为：“‘.在线’和‘.中文网’优质域名项目自推出以来，一直受到全世界域名投资人的关注和热捧。这次取得的强劲销售成绩也是目前推出的其他新顶级域名所无法比及的。” 中文域名的使用俨然已成为当今中国互联网发展的必然趋势。中国政府今年3月3日公布的新规定中强调，中国政府相关网站今后将全部采用中文域名“.在线”和“.中文网”自今年上线以来在全球域名界内引起了不小的轰动。许多中国及外国域名投资人对“.在线”和“.中文网”表示出了极大的兴趣。 Sedo的全球首席执行官表示：“人们对中文域名的热捧程度可比上世纪九十年代时对.com域名的关注。这次的‘.在线’和‘.中文网’的热卖正好印证了这一点。我们和期待和域通联达一同继续推进中文域名在中国乃至全世界中文语言区域的普及。” “.在线”和“.中文网”两项中文域名现已进入第二阶段抢注期。抢注期将于2014年4月24日结束。2014年4月28日将开始对大众开放的普通注册期。届时大众可在域通联达授权的注册商处购得心仪的中文域名。 本次域通联达的澳门优质域名拍卖会的赞助商有：.Club注册商和“.在线”和“.中文网”后台服务提供商Afilias.场地提供为澳门银河酒店红怜私人会所。 关于域通联达 域通联达有限公司是一家顶级中文域名注册局，旗下的中文顶级域名包括“.在线”和“.中文网”。 域通联达的创办者为来自芬兰的企业家。其在顶级域名业务、国际销售、市场营销和高科技成长型公司的发展管理方面积累了深厚的行业经验。 公司的管理层中还包括在域名行业内的专家和意见领袖。 同时公司还拥有一支优秀的多语公关营销团队，尤其擅长中国市场的推广营销。 域通联达的在全球的办公室包括北京、香港、芬兰赫尔辛基、美国纽约、美国奥斯丁与挪威奥斯陆。 关于域通联达、“.在线”和“.中文网”的更多信息请访问我们的网站：域名.在线，域名.中文网 或 http://域名.在线 / https://tldland.cn/zh-hans/。...