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Who is 265.com?

I have posted about 265.com and its founder Mr. Cai before.

265.com is regarded as a grass-root legend in china internet market. They maybe the simplest site in China. I said they were the teenage yahoo, like a directory or navigation site.

A similar website called hao123.com had already merged by Baidu two year ago. After that, IDG VC invested into 265.com, Google followed the coming year.

Both hao123.com and 265.com had contribute huge traffic for both Baidu and Google for since 2004. The most valuabale asset for these website are traffice and massive amount of faithful internet users. A hugh amount of chinese internet user make 265.com as their homepage at the computers.

Now, a little bird told me today,Google extend its investment and merge 265.com into its china branch. No one commeted about that so far.

The CNNIC had a press release at Beijing today. CNNIC will start a promotion package for .cn domain.

That is, the cost for the first registration year for a .cn domain will be only RMB 1 Yuan, which is less than 13 cents in US$.

CNNIC believes that the promotion will attract more chinese and companies to register a .cn domain. A expecting .cn domain rush will expand the market scale of internet business.

Although .cn domain registratin fees is the main revenue for CNNIC, they still have the resposiblity to help the chinese internet market.

I believe that more .cn domain registration will bring more commercial or non-commercial website into this market. More business is right on the corner.