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seesawgame
6th February 2010, 10:11 PM
新疆.net (Shinjang), sold $426 at snapnames.com

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Wot
6th February 2010, 10:54 PM
Cheap- still plenty of bargains around.
Drewbert
7th February 2010, 02:12 AM
That's about as far away from the action as you can get and still be in China?
zaclondon
7th February 2010, 11:07 AM
Xinjiang is the correct pinyin.

I'm surprised this went as high as $426. There's been far better drops recently. It just goes to confirm my suspicion that geo's are overpriced! I'm sticking with generic .com's.
bwhhisc
7th February 2010, 01:34 PM
It just goes to confirm my suspicion that geo's are overpriced! I'm sticking with generic .com's.

Not overpriced, in demand. 75% of emails I get looking to buy idns are for geos.
zaclondon
7th February 2010, 01:45 PM
Not overpriced, in demand. 75% of emails I get looking to buy idns are for geos.

Demand from who? End users or domainers?

I'm guessing it's domainers wanting to get a piece of the IDN pie, but having no knowledge of the target langauge, so preferring easily translatable geo's(or dictionary terms) over harder-to-translate generics.
markits
7th February 2010, 02:11 PM
I have got an offer from a Chinese native for RMB120,000 to buy a Chinese geo domain from me. That is $17500.
bwhhisc
7th February 2010, 03:31 PM
Demand from who? End users or domainers? I'm guessing it's domainers wanting to get a piece of the IDN pie, but having no knowledge of the target langauge, so preferring easily translatable geo's(or dictionary terms) over harder-to-translate generics.

No idea, but so far no one offering up good enough offers. Of late, the majority have been from Arabic countries, I usually counter with offer to co-develop the name but so far no takers.
touchring
7th February 2010, 03:49 PM
I have got an offer from a Chinese native for RMB120,000 to buy a Chinese geo domain from me. That is $17500.

what city is that?
markits
7th February 2010, 03:52 PM
what city is that?

Province.
touchring
7th February 2010, 04:33 PM
Interesting, quite sometime back, I had one keen buyer who was contemplating an offer to the tune of the price of a small apt in that city, I only replied out of courtesy, the truth is that collecting chinese cities is like a hobby to me, so i won't sell unless the price is extremely good.

Besides, $40,000 can't buy much in Singapore nowadays. Can't even buy a new Vios, or what they call a Yaris.
markits
7th February 2010, 04:42 PM
Touch,
PM sent. Thanks.
jose
7th February 2010, 08:05 PM
Even asciiers agree idn geos are a must.
bwhhisc
7th February 2010, 08:16 PM
Even asciiers agree idn geos are a must.

I hear tell they might even let us into their private club someday. :p
Wot
7th February 2010, 10:09 PM
I hear tell they might even let us into their private club someday. :p

Only if you have premium geo IDN in English. :p
touchring
8th February 2010, 04:33 AM
Only if you have premium geo IDN in English. :p

Detroit.com? Some of the houses in Hong Kong, and even Singapore, you can buy an entire Detroit neighborhood plus the school.
Wot
8th February 2010, 06:28 AM
Detroit.com? Some of the houses in Hong Kong, and even Singapore, you can buy an entire Detroit neighborhood plus the school.


I remember when I lived in HK some 20 years ago a car parking space sold for US$100,000. :o
touchring
8th February 2010, 08:16 AM
I remember when I lived in HK some 20 years ago a car parking space sold for US$100,000. :o


I'm not surprised, you must consider that the space required for a parking lot is not just the lot itself but also includes the road in front of the lot, so we're looking at about a couple hundred square feet per lot.

For a middle class HK property that costs $1500 a sq ft, the parking lot will cost half a million.