All successful domain name investors will know the amazing free resource that is Domain Sherpa. Led by publisher Michael Cyger and supported by "sherpas" (all of which are domain name investor legends) Michael Berkens, Adam Dicker, Rick Schwartz and Page Howe. We were surprised and delighted to find our newly-launched Dot Chinese Online (.在线) & Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs as the first topic of discussion in today's Domain Sherpa web show! Most of the Sherpas came out strongly in support of the market-leading new Chinese TLDs. Adam Dicker revealed that he's invested quite heavily in our Chinese domains, revealing that he has bought several thousand of our domain names. Michael Berkens very generously endorsed our domains, rating them a "buy", even though he hasn't personally bought in via his domain name investment company Most Wanted Domains (Michael, its still very early days and there are hundreds of thousands of fantastic domains still unbought! 🙂 We invite our readers to enjoy the online web show here: DomainSherpa Discussion: Dot Chinese Launch; LL.TLD Request; Registrar Requirements… A note to our Chinese readers: we'll make time to subtitle this episode in Chinese and post to our Youku account as soon as...

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: IDN TLD （国际顶级域） Global Rank （全球排名） Number of Domains （域名注册量） IDN TLD （国际顶级域） Global Rank （全球排名） Number of Domains （域名注册量） .在线 Dot Chinese Online ("online" in Chinese) 4 33,012 .中文网 Dot Chinese Website ("Chinese website" in Chinese) 9 17,537 .みんな ("everyone" in Japanese) （日文“大家”） 52 3,455 .شبكة ("internet" in Arabic)（阿拉伯文“英特网”） 70 1,885 .ОНЛАЙН ("online" in Russian) （俄文“在线”） 72 1,246 .САЙТ ("site" in Russian) （俄文“网站”） 79 619 .移动 ("mobile" in Chinese) 87 293 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...

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...

Simon Cousins, CMO of TLD Registry, was interview by ICANNwiki in Singapore. He talked  about TLD Registry, the two Chinese gTLDs -- Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website, our completely successful Premium Name Auction in Macau and our plans for the Landrush period. [youtube=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uN_QQrraG0&rel=0&w=500]