Domain name growth in China

Online activity is stronger than ever in China as the CNNIC and the IWOSC show that the .cn domain name extension registrations in China have exceeded 1M, for 2005.

You can view the report here (.pdf format).

By the end of 2005, China had a healthy 2,592,410 domains registered, in all (including .com, .net and other TLDs). This represents an increase of over 40% compared with the same period, in 2004.

Not too surprisingly, the longer .com.cn suffix has been largely surpassed by the shorter and easier to remember .cn.

Overall, China has about 94M users and roughly, 30M access the web using leased lines (LANs connected to the Internet), 52M use dial-up, just over 6M use ISDN and 42M use broadband (either xDSL or cable modems).

This means there’s a real opportunity to register quality .cn domain names that are still available. Here’s a quick list:

• financed.cn (very hot)
• inventing.cn
• journaled.cn
• loveable.cn (very hot)
• memberships.cn
• privatize.cn
• researchers.cn
• spoutnik.cn

If you missed the .com goldrush a few years back, this may be your time to add valuable domain names to your portfolio, in the .cn realm.

You can also take a look at the .com.cn suffix if you’re doing business in China since it’s usually linked to corporations.

If you’d like to check for the availability of any other domain name, in the .cn extension or any other, just visit this domain registration web site and enjoy very low prices.