{"id":7171,"date":"2016-02-25T22:31:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:31:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/?p=7171"},"modified":"2016-02-25T22:31:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T14:31:29","slug":"pinyin-com-domain-changes-hands-for-a-six-figure-sum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/2016\/pinyin-com-domain-changes-hands-for-a-six-figure-sum\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinyin.com domain changes hands for a six-figure sum"},"content":{"rendered":"

Don’t get excited. I’m still here. It’s pinyin.com, not pinyin.info<\/a>, that changed hands.<\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

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. <\/p>\n

source: Zhè cái shì zhēnzhèng de “pīnyīn” — mǐ yǒu zhōng 6 wèi mǎi yùmíng pinyin.com<\/a> (这才是真正的“拼音” 米友中六位买域名 pinyin.com), eName.cn, February 20, 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[887],"class_list":["post-7171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pinyin","tag-pinyin-domain-names"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7171"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7176,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7171\/revisions\/7176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pinyin.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}