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Originally Posted by mgrohan
I think Chinese is a huge market and will be very lucrative in the future.
The problem at the moment is mainly with parking. With most foreign parking companies blocked the only real alternative is development.
Plus if development is not done properly (full blown sites Vs. mini sites) it is also hard to see any results.. As there are way too many competing pages.
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That's true.
But this future is quite far away, they still have to overcome the habit of using Pinyin for domains, as you are aware, unlike japanese or korean, the chinese are very comfortable with the romanized form of their language. Kids learn pinyin even before they learn chinese characters proper. Pinyin, to the chinese is like kana is to the japanese or hangul (basically the language proper!) is to the Koreans.
I estimate the real takeoff for chinese domains, anywhere between 2015-2020. In the meantime, there will be plenty of opportunity to acquire good names along the way as people give up waiting. Already this year, so many chinese names, especially dot nets are dropped intentionally and caught by flippers. In contrast, you don't see latins dropping that way do you?