There are approximately 50 million ethnic Chinese people living outside of China’s mainland, which itself is home to nearly 1.4 billion Chinese. Ethnic Chinese people comprise 3.7% of the world’s population beyond China’s borders. Most of these consumers read, write and speak Chinese. Densely populated Chinese communities outside of China, oftentimes referred to as “Chinatowns,” are a good way of demonstrating the size of the global Chinese consumer base. Using fully-Chinese domain names, such as Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), is a powerful and inexpensive method of reaching this vast demographic group of consumers. Chinese language domain names can be an exceptionally powerful and cost-effective way of promoting your product, service or message in Chinese language communities. Chinese language domain names are culturally relevant, linguistically correct, and commercially attractive. They can substantially enhance your SEO and positively influence an audience of global consumers. In the current “expansion of the internet” new gTLD program, in which several thousand new top-level domains (TLDs) are coming on line, the world’s biggest-selling* non-English new gTLD domain names are in Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). Click to download a high-resolution PDF of TLD Registry's Where do Chinese people live" Infographic. Chinatowns in North America New York City contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, totaling 682,265 individuals, per the 2010 United States Census. There are at least nine different Chinatown communities in New York State alone. The Chinatown in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and also one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia. Two other cities in California have significant Chinese populations: Los Angeles with more than 66,782 ethnic Chinese and San Jose with 63,434 ethnic Chinese. Chicago’s Chinatown is on the Windy City’s South Side and is home to more than 70,000 Chinese people. Honolulu is home to more than 40,000 Chinese, and its Chinatown Historic District is one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States. Canada contains two important Chinatowns: Vancouver and Toronto. Vancouver’s Chinatown is the largest in Canada. It is a popular tourist attraction and one of the largest historic Chinatowns on the continent. There are approximately 400,000 ethnic Chinese in the city, comprising 17% of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area’s population. Approximately 279,000 ethnic Chinese live in Toronto, comprising 10.8% of the total population. Toronto’s Chinatown is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area. Chinatowns in Asia The largest Chinatown in Asia is in Yokohama Japan, just south of Tokyo, which is one of the largest Chinatowns in the world. There are approximately 675,000 ethnic Chinese currently living in...

Our CMO, Simon Cousins, presented a talk at HostingCon China in Shanghai on May 23rd, 2014. In that talk, he provided an overview of all the open Chinese new gTLDs, and their current stage of availability or development. This research is difficult to come by -- one must research ICANN and the individual registries to ascertain the actual status of the gTLDs. To our knowledge this information doesn't appear anywhere else in a single, easy to navigate format. We're pleased to make our research available to the domain name community of users and stakeholders! TLD Registry presentation at HostingCon China 2014-06-23...