Eranet News on January 15th,2014. According to a posting on the NiceNic blog, the hottest topic at a recent Chinese domain name fair was the public auction of tens of thousands of domains for .cn and the IDN for .china (in Chinese). The names had previously been reserved by the Chinese registry CNNIC.

The top 20 domain sales were, with prices in Chinese Yuan (CNY – CNY100,000 approximately equals US$16,550):

game.cn    CNY3,098,000

gw.cn    CNY2,004,000

Lb.cn    CNY1,100,000

1234.cn    CNY704,000

xx.cn    CNY664,000

ys.cn    CNY608,000

xin.cn    CNY558,000

che.cn    CNY522,000

jia.cn    CNY508,000

bao.cn    CNY504,000

pt.cn    CNY470,000

qc.cn    CNY400,000

dai.cn    CNY380,000

ny.cn    CNY372,000

guo.cn    CNY312,000

yu.cn    CNY306,000

xie.cn    CNY304,000

zh.cn    CNY254,000

fm.cn    CNY242,000

px.cn    CNY238,000.