Many domain investors’ style includes keeping tabs on various trends and speculating the long-term outlook and value. If the trend seems hot today, but will likely fizzle away in the coming months, relevant domain names relating to the trend will hold little to no value at all, depending on the trend. Other topics, products, and ideas that originally start off as merely a “trend,” but look to have long-term viability, domain investors will scoop up those names faster than you can say “virtual reality.”
Speculation and subsequent domain investment relating to various trends, based on viability of potential value increase, is a common strategy employed by domain investors, so for this next blog article I’d like to introduce a hot trend in China, and how registering relevant Chinese domain names relating to that trend is a good idea.
Currently, one of the fastest growing trend in China is video. Live streaming, video sharing, short original video creation, and video apps are becoming extremely popular and growing quite rapidly among China’s massive internet population. People want to see what’s going on. Presenting products, services, educational materials, and more via visual stimulation (video, infographics, images, gifs, etc.) has long-been a popular marketing tactic to get people to notice and better pay attention to your message. I myself can admit that I tend to find visual stimulation via marketing a better way of getting me to pay attention to what’s being said, as opposed to reading text. In China, this is not only working very well, but everyday consumers are using video streaming and other methods on a daily basis, even if it’s simply to live stream yourself sitting around the house doing nothing.
With that said, trends like video in China present another fantastic opportunity for domain investors, consumers, and businesses big and small to register meaningful, unique, and intelligent fully-Chinese domain names.
For example, investors can monitor these video-related trends and register relevant domain names in, say, .在线 (Dot Chinese Online), which are abundant, reasonably priced, and would provide the investor a nice long-term hold. When fully-Chinese domains inevitably become the new norm in China, investors can then resell in the aftermarket and capitalize on these hot, valuable trends. For startups, setting up your new video-related app or website can be done so using a fully-Chinese domain name that immediately conveys meaning to the audience, which then establishes trust and credibility of the brand, products, and services.
For established businesses, utilizing a fully-Chinese domain name is a great way to promote your products and services in a unique and meaningful manner. Does your company live stream events? Promote products via video? Give instructions or present educational material for a product or service? Explain a new marketing program? If you answered “yes” to any of those, setting up a fully-Chinese domain name for related to video is a great way for established businesses to take advantage of this current trend.
Remember, with fully-Chinese domains, the relevance of the TLD is clear and intuitive. The Chinese word 在线 is the precise and singular translation for the English word “online” — there is zero ambiguity about the purpose of websites and services in a Dot Chinese Online domain.
To give you an idea of some of the names available for investors, businesses, and even regular consumers, see below for some amazing domains you can easily register via any of the following registrars:
Domain: 录像.在线
Translation: Videotape
Price: USD $588
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 100 Million
Domain: luxiang.在线
Translation: Videotape (pinyin)
Price: USD $188
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 100 Million
Domain: 视频点播.在线
Translation: Video on Demand
Price: USD $588
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 100 Million
Domain: shipindianbo.在线
Translation: Video on Demand (pinyin)
Price: USD $188
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 100 Million
Domain: 数码摄像机.在线
Translation: Digital Video
Price: USD $588
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 99 Million
Domain: shumashexiangji.在线
Translation: Digital Video (pinyin)
Price: USD $188
Buy: Sedo
Baidu Hits: 99 Million
Domain: 浜.在线
Translation: Stream
Price: USD $588
Buy: Inquire at domains@internetregistry.info
Baidu Hits: 31 Million
Domain: 视频流.在线
Translation: Video Streaming
Price: USD $32/year
Buy: ChopChop Domains
Baidu Hits: 19 Million
Video streaming is just one trend that is exploding right now in China. Don’t miss your chance to capitalize on some amazing, relevant, and available fully-Chinese domain names for whatever video-related purpose suits you best.
– ChopChop Domains Team