Google China Buys G.cn Domain

Google is a very strong brand, but in the Chinese market, branding the company under the letter ‘G’ may be a bit easier, especially for the mobile or newbie user. Google now owns one of the shortest possible domain names for the users in the Chinese market, www.G.cn.

Google says that this short domain name would help the web users in the country as they would be able to type it in fast. G.cn now redirects to Google.cn.

G.com however, leads to nothing and is owned by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.

Source : Internet

 

Dam this brats, I wonder how much the deal costed

 

Already posted here:

http://forums.digitalpoint.com/showthread.php?t=541283

 

Nice domain for Chinese people I GUESS.

 

Yeah ! but I could n't delete this.
Sorry !

 

Maybe we need a new thread to recollect.

 

They should buy G.com

 

I think It's an invalid domain. Too short to register..

 

Why is there G.cn then?

 

I dont know.

Go to Godaddy and type in A, or B. It says its an invalid domain.

 

I hate Google

 

I wonder for which price they purshassed it !

 

In the millions I expect.

Or on a serious note I'd say 500,000$

 

Everyone is wondering how much.

 

whats the point? why go through all that trouble? why not do it with .co.uk and stuff?

 

Search google. Some information might be there.

 

I dont think it costs any Look at this what the author said:

Its not owned by google

 

HAHA. $500,000! Not even close. I'd say a good 10mil.

Because they are trying to target china not england.

 

Try x.com. Single letter domains are worth ... priceless.

 

Damn these domains, never been able to understand them.