by Kane Gao | Feb 14, 2019 | China business, tech sector
Alibaba Group is China’s number one e-commerce powerhouse, propelled by multiple business arms, most significantly Taobao, which has become the synonym of online shopping in the Chinese-speaking universe. On top of that, it also owns Aliyun, one of the...
by Matt Johnson | Jan 27, 2018 | China business, tech sector
Forget Internet censorship and cybersecurity for the moment. Contemplate this: China will own a majority of the world’s web addresses in the next few years and likely a huge chunk of its live websites. This is not speculation. It’s reality. Why? The...
by Matt Johnson | Jul 28, 2016 | China business, tech sector
Last week, our team heard that China’s MIIT (Ministry of Industry and Information Technology) would be implementing real name verification system for .COM and .NET domain names, which are owned by Verisign, a non-Chinese domain registry. This would mean that all...
by Matt Johnson | Mar 4, 2016 | China business, clients, experiential marketing, tech sector
Last week, CLUB’s team (including Colin Campbell and Michele Van Tilborg) visited China’s main domain registrars in their grandest China roadshow to date. All in all they visited 8+ registrars and domain sector partners in Shenzhen, Xiamen, Hangzhou, and...