"Chinese Government Buy IDN.idn" - no report in China?

[nicenic]

I checked domestic forums like domain.cn and ename.cn but did not find that who was reporting the news, it's a bit interesting. Any Chinese domainers here on IDNForums notice this as well?

http://www.idnforums.com/forums/showthread.php?p=219932

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/03/19/chinese-government-buys-20000-new-idn-domain-names/

http://www.thedomains.com/2014/03/19/well-we-just-told-you-these-idns-are-hot-chinese-goverment-buys-20500-domains/

http://domainincite.com/16151-tld-registry-sells-20k-idn-gtld-names-to-chinese-gov

http://monikerblog.com/?p=919

http://nicenic.net/news/messview.php?ID=13232

[mchold]

it is big news
中编办的大手笔

[Wot]

It appears TLD registry have issued the press release.

It's the Macao auction tomorrow so I guess plenty of info there.

[mchold]

cos lots of ** is under table. so no news is good news
domestic,there is little news on paper or tv for these two dot

[nicenic]

it is big news
中编办的大手笔
中编办原来这么有钱呐，下次CNNIC注册商年会，得跟他们多喝两杯 :-D :-p

[nicenic]

Time to have my thread title updated:

http://news.domain.cn/html/haiwaizixun/2014/0321/32708.html

2014-03-21 10:57

[nicenic]

It appears TLD registry have issued the press release.

It's the Macao auction tomorrow so I guess plenty of info there.

Yes, sure:

https://twitter.com/TLDRegistry