TLD Registry's 2nd Principal Sponsorship of China's largest domain name registrar, Xinnet's partner conference roadshow concluded in Nanjing today. China's old southern capital was today the epicentre of China's domain name business, with around 250 of the region's most influential domain resellers gathering to enjoy Xinnet's and TLD Registry's sales trainings and hospitality. TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins and Partner Relations Manager Claire Zhang gave a rousing seminar, focusing on the world's most registered IDN new gTLDs, Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网).  Our traditional lucky draw of a beautiful Chow Sang Sang gold buillion followed, and the day concluded with a luxury buffet lunch at Nanjing's Sofitel Galaxy Hotel. Our sales training paid off! The same afternoon, Xinnet proudly reported a single sale of 500 name-years for Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website domains! Xinnet is already China's leading registrar for new gTLD domains under management, and today's sale puts the registrar further ahead. We'd like to thank not only Xinnet for the opportunity to partner with such a great registrar, but also the almost-700 Chinese domain resellers which we have met and trained this week. Thank you all for your support of Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website! PS, congratulations to our lucky draw winner, Mr 吴建龙of 物流114!        ...

Leading Chinese registrar, 35.com has partnered with TLD Registry to run an intensive two week sales campaign. 35.com has an impressive sales-force of more than 1,000 salespeople in their Xiamen headquarters building, and more than 40,000 resellers around China. On a rainy Saturday morning in June, TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins and Beijing-based Partner Relations Manager Claire Zhang delivered a sales and marketing training session to 35.com's sales team leaders. Good luck to our great friends and partners at 35.com! We're proud that Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) have been selected by your team for special promotion!...

Leading Chinese domain name registrar, Nawang Technology, today began a major 12-month campaign across the Baidu Union advertising network. The objectives of the co-marketing campaign are to increase awareness of TLD Registry's Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs -- the world's leading non-English new gTLDs, as measured by numbers of domains under management. The joint Nawang-TLD Registry campaign represents a substantial joint venture investment in advertising costs and Nawang's excellent Baidu Union advertising expertise. TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins and CTO Raymond Li kicked the campaign off with Nawang's 赵国生 and 张志坤 at Nawang headquarters in Xiamen on 9th June. As a gesture of Nawang's commitment to Dot Chinese Online & Dot Chinese Website, the world's most popular IDNs are also featured on Nawang's popular "mall"  homepage (and with keen pricing!)...

China's #1 registrar by domains under management, Xinnet (新网) has been staging conferences for its substantial number of resellers in major Chinese cities. As southern Guangdong province contributes the largest number of daily internet users of all Chinese provinces (14.75% of ~650 million), TLD Registry decided to go big in Guangdong's commerical megapolis of Shenzhen. Our investment in our partner Xinnet wasn't wasted. Xinnet was able to activate 450 of their key resellers and co-registrars for a sensational morning of motivational information and sales training. TLD Registry's CEO Arto Isokoski, CMO Simon Cousins and Beijing-based Partner Relations Manager Claire Zhang gave a rousing presentation and staged a fun lucky draw, featuring our conventional prize of a real gold bullion from Hong Kong's leading jeweller, Chow Sang Sang. Congratulations to our partners at Xinnet for such a successful event, and to the lucky winner of our Chao Sang Sang gold, Mr Jin Xin of Shenzhen registrar Gainda.com!          ...

On Friday 30th June 2014, the peak industry advisory body for Chinese DNS operations, the Chinese Domain Name Consortium, voted during its annual meeting in Shanghai to admit TLD Registry Ltd as a member. TLD Registry Ltd, owner-operator of the world's most popular non-English new gTLDs, .在线 ("Dot Chinese Online") and .中文网 ("Dot Chinese Website"). The CNDC was established on May 19th, 2000 in Beijing by the China Network Information Center (CNNIC), the Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC), the Hong Kong Network Information Center (HKNIC) and the Macau Network Information Center (MONIC). As an independent non-profit organization, the CDNC exists to improve coordination and cooperation between key stakeholders of Chinese domain names. In addition to the founding NICs, TLD Registry joins fellow CNDC members SGNIC, APNIC, CONAC, the ITU, the IETF, the IMC, ICANN, Afilias, and...

We were honored to be invited by the domain name investment community's webshow-of-record, Domain Sherpa, for an interview about Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). What was to be a short chat turned into a detailed review of TLD Registry's playbook and a masterclass on Chinese domain name investing for westerners. If you're interested in understanding more about how TLD Registry created the most successful New gTLD launch in the program's history, and how to invest and profit from Chinese domain names (without knowing a lick of Mandarin or Cantonese), why not grab the popcorn and settle in for Investing in China’s New Domain Names – With Simon Cousins, at Michael Cyger's Domain...