Don’t get excited. I’m still here. It’s pinyin.com, not pinyin.info, that changed hands.
Anyway, Pinyin-related domain names are “hot” these days. The pinyin.com domain name reportedly sold recently for a six-figure sum. Since the story was on a Chinese website, I suppose that’s a six-figure sum in yuan, not U.S. dollars, which would put the price somewhere between US$15,000 and US$150,000.
What irks me a bit is the story’s labeling of pinyin.com as the “real” pinyin domain name (“zhēnzhèng de ‘pīnyīn’ yùmíng”). Bah. Humbug.
If you readers ever check in one day to discover that my site has become permanently plastered with advertising, crappy content, and cutesy cartoons, it won’t be because I sold out for a mere six-figure amount in Chinese yuan. After all, a truly world-class collection of Hello Kitty memorabilia would cost me a lot more than just that. A man’s gotta maintain standards, you know.
source: Zhè cái shì zhēnzhèng de “pīnyīn” — mǐ yǒu zhōng 6 wèi mǎi yùmíng pinyin.com (这才是真正的“拼音” 米友中六位买域名 pinyin.com), eName.cn, February 20, 2016
Surely in this age of those wonderful internationalized domain names, the “real” pinyin domain name is 拼音.com?
Actually, shouldn’t the “real” Pīnyīn domain name be written in Pīnyīn?
Pīnyīn.com FTW!
On a pulse I checked on the domain pinyin.com, but only found it’s down.
Strange someone bought it at such a big money and let it die off. Wondering what happened there.