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DavyBUK
8th February 2007, 01:09 PM
And check out the video too -

Now that website technology supports domain names with Chinese characters, many of Chinese companies and netizens are cheering the upcoming Spring Festival in a new way.

Mr. Meng, a private business owner, recently registered "Cai yuan gun gun" -- a traditional Chinese idiom which means endless streams of income -- as his company's domain name.

Meng said "I hope the domain name will bring good luck in business for me, my partners and customers as well."

Experts say, domain names in Chinese are more intuitive for Chinese users. And as the website technology now fully supports the domain names in Chinese characters, there has been a spike in the number of such domain names during this Spring Festival period.

Li Xiaodong, Chief technology officer of China Internet Network Information Center, said "Chinese domain names incorporate traditional Chinese culture. We can extend traditional greetings through Chinese domain names. So celebrating the New Year with a new Chinese domain name can be very meaningful, and it's fashionable too."

Statistics show, since January this year, more than 1,000 people per day are registering Chinese domain names. And this number is growing quickly as the New Year approaches.


http://www.cctv.com/program/bizchina/20070208/105719.shtml

Has anyone managed to get the video to play in this ? I thought that this news from a national China TV station thats a subministry of the government calling Chinese domain names "fashionable" and showing video of them being used in the browser bar was rather interesting...But the lack of replies seems to indicate that I'm barking up the wrong tree again :)

Ah, Blast's replied as I was typing that second part :) Thats twice thats happened to me today......

blastfromthepast
8th February 2007, 03:09 PM
Good news.

Giant
8th February 2007, 04:41 PM
This is just the start of a long series of big promotion campaigns of Chinese character domain names. Still more to come.

zenmarketing
8th February 2007, 06:04 PM
Nice...

cdehoo
10th February 2007, 04:39 AM
"Cai yuan gun gun" = 财源滚滚.cn
http://discovery.cctv.com/20070208/100863.shtml

bwhhisc
10th February 2007, 11:28 AM
Thanks for posting that, does anyone see IDN making increases at EACHNIC Chinese domain sales forum?

http://www.eachnic.com/club/forumdisplay.php?fid=54

blastfromthepast
10th February 2007, 08:03 PM
‘‘Domain names with Chinese Characteristics.™’’

thegenius1
10th February 2007, 08:22 PM
This IS Really Awesome !