The second round premium domain auction across China already concluded as a BIG success. BABY.CN, QILU.COM and SHUNFENG.COM stood out with final biddings surpassing million. Baby.cn was the highest selling domain name at 2.53 million cny(US$410,872); QiLu.com ended in bidding 1.98 million cny(US$321,552) and ranked second to Baby.cn, QiLu is another name for "Shangdong", a big province of China; the highest bid for ShunFeng.com was 1.06 million cny(US$172,144) and ShunFeng is a famous express company in China. Other interesting domain name sales include: (* The first number is the sale price in Chinese Yuan, second number is the one I converted to US Dollars. The conversion rate of roughly 1 Chinese Yuan = .1624 USD) 126.cn 680,000 $110,432 (126: hot & free Email service in China, please refer to 126.com) jin.cn 555,000 $90,132 (jin: means "gold", "powerful" in Chinese Pinyin) meizhuang.com 490,000 $79,576 (meizhuang: a double Pinyin, means "beauty makeup" in Chinese) rose.cn 480,000 $77,952 5855.com 465,000 $75,516 cb.cn 455,000 $73,892 (CB: abbreviation from "China Bike", "China Business", please refer to chinabike.net & cb.com.cn) xiaowei.com 455,000 $73,892 (XiaoWei: a household name in China) Thanks for attention!
If there was a stable political leadership to the internet issues and not bad experiences of the past, .CN would be a prominent ccTLD