Many investors have the misconception that Chinese companies use only Pinyin domains. On the contrary, I come across English-based domains regularly when reading Chinese news. Here are 10 Chinese startups I picked up from financial news just in June.

Brand Business Funding Domain

Airdoc AI-based medical care Series D Airdoc.com

Honor Trends Blood inventory control Series A HonorTrends.com

xCharge Electric car charging Series B xCharge.com

Lady Penguin Wine Series A LadyPenguin.com

dCarer Digital health care Series C dCarer.com

EcoFlow Eco power supply Series B EcoFlow.com

GenePoint Bio material storage Series C GenePoint.com

ChemExpress Chemical reagents IPO ChemExpress.com

Best Covered Alzheimer treatment Series A BestCovered.com

GensKey Genetic testing Series C+ GensKey.com

What can we learn from these domains? (1) .com (2) Brand-matching.

This means that if you invest in English-based .com domains, you still have a chance to sell to Chinese end users. Just make sure your domains are listed at a marketplace with retail outlets in China.

Also, if you see a domain not matching its Chinese brand, there is a possibility that the company will upgrade to its brand-matching .com.

Source from Domain Name Wire

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