If you list your domains for sale with two popular aftermarket venues, The AfternicDLS and/or Sedo.com, new partnerships those companies have forged with registrars in China will put your names in front of a huge new pool of potential buyers.  Today the AfternicDLS announced a deal with China's largest registrar, HiChina, that will place millions of AfternicDLS listings on the giant registrar's website at www.Net.cn where they will be available for instant transfer.

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AfternicDLS COO Jason Miner said, “We are excited to bring our premium listings to the Chinese marketplace, and especially thrilled to be doing so through a partnership with renowned registrar HiChina. As we continue to strengthen our global

presence through key partnerships with the world’s top registrars, we bring buyers and sellers from across the globe together through our unified aftermarket.” The AfternicDLS is a unit of NameMedia who claims more than 50 million visitors to its network of websites with domain sales to customers in more than 100 countries.

The AfternicDLS-HiChina announcement comes on the heels of a new agreement that Sedo announced Monday (June 18) with their first Chinese registrar partner, EJEE, who becomes one of  more than 60 registrars offering their customers access to the SedoMLS inventory of over 16 million domains. EJEE General Manager XuJian 

Ye said,  “We are honored to be working with Sedo and are looking forward to finding common ground for developing a better future for the domain industry. Becoming the first Chinese registrar to join the SedoMLS network is a privilege, and we anticipate a strong partnership over the coming years.”

ICA Legal Counsel Phil Corwin

One other note today - in case you missed them, two excellent articles were published this week that cover topics of importance to every domain investor and developer. 

One is by Internet Commerce Association Legal Counsel Phil Corwin titled New gTLDs: Competition or Concentration? Innovation or Domination? that was posted at DomainNameNews.com Wednesday. Corwin, who is based in Washington, D.C. covers growing concerns in the nation's capital that the 1,400 plus new gTLDs that ICANN is  now considering will be concentrated in the hands of too few holders "with potentially profound consequences for the future of e-commerce." This could be the next big battleground area in ICANN's plans to roll out an unlimited number of new TLDs in the years ahead.

Another article of special relevance is one that respected industry veteran Nat Cohen wrote Monday for DomainArts.com titled Why Reverse Domain Name Hijacking needs to be a Real Penalty and the Most Comprehensive List of RDNH (Reverse Domain Name Hijacking) Cases. 

Attempted domain name hijacking cases involving over-reaching trademark interests (or parties with no interest at all other than stealing a valuable domain name through the UDRP system) have been widely publicized in recent weeks. The problem is that there is no penalty for those found guilty of a reverse domain hijacking attempt. Cohen makes a well-detailed, persuasive case for why that needs to change.  

Nat Cohen