Tencent Registers Thousands of .CN Domain Names
National Business Daily, 9/07/12
Chinese internet giant Tencent (0700.HK) has acquired thousands of .CN domain names, including five-digit names between 10000.cn and 99999.cn, and six-digit names between 100000.cn and 430581.cn, registered via domain name service provider and registrar DNSPod, which is wholly-owned by Tencent via subsidiary Shenzhen Shiji Kaixuan Technology.
Editor's Note: Tencent's QQ accounts are designated solely with numerals. For more information on this topic, please see "Tencent, CNNIC Partner on Personal .CN Domain Names," MD 9/03/12 issue, and "Tencent Subsidiary Acquires DNSPod," MD 4/13/12 issue.