Chew 8888889 today!

If selling numeric domains was prohibited do you think people would put in the effort to find rare facts about what numbers may mean in other languages? One domainer on DNForum named 'http', who is selling the number domain 8888889.com, has done some interesting research on the meaning of numbers in China.

8888889.com is one of those long numeric domains that you rarely see being sold. NNNNN.com's are listed for sale daily, sometimes hourly, however numerics at six+ digits are not as well sought after and lack liquidity in the marketplace. Domainers collect these longer pure number domains when they spell a word, or a vanity number, or if they mean something in another language.

'Http' writes that, in Chinese, the word for "eight" sounds similar to the word for "prosper" or "wealth", that the (word for) number 9 sounds like the word for "longlasting" and that '88' resembles the symbol for joy or happiness. And in Cantonese the words for "eight" and "fortune" are also similar. Http even found out that a fish farm in Singapore uses numbers with lots of eights in their microchip tag numbers especially for their best fish!

So, if some folks in Singapore were now overhearing you read this blog aloud, they would interpret http's domain, 8888889.com, as meaning joy-joy-joy-longlasting.

It almost sounds like a chewing gum. 'Triple longlasting flavor. Chew 8888889 today!'