I still remember saying in the article below a few days ago that I missed out on a certain two-character .hk domain due to a moment of hesitation. Then last night, when I tried to have AI continue scanning for me, I discovered that a two-character .hk had actually been released. Without a second thought, I bought it immediately, afraid it would be registered by someone else the very next second.
After registering it, I took a look at the domain I had acquired, and it seemed to have no particular meaning.
7V.HK
This domain indeed appears to have no special meaning.
I chatted with AI for a while, and we finally settled on naming the site SevenVee. SevenVee means 7V, which matches the domain perfectly.
# What is this domain going to be used for?
I have currently submitted this domain for ICP filing. Once it passes review by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, this site will officially migrate from the Hong Kong, China server to a mainland China server, and be renamed from doyen·Story to SevenVee.
To be honest, having used this domain for so long, I'm a bit reluctant to change it, but from certain perspectives, completing the ICP filing is equivalent to my website receiving China's "official certification." No one will ever call my website a "strange link" or "unknown link" again. The .GS domain happens to be outside China's internet domain system—it's short and easy to remember, but it cannot be filed. Now that there's a domain with its advantages that also supports ICP filing, I certainly wouldn't pass it up.
Of course, I've also switched my personal email to xiheng@7v.hk. A short domain really does have its benefits—it's easier to remember.
# Is the .hk domain a non-mainstream domain?
From a certain angle, it can be considered non-mainstream, but that's relative to .com domains. Compared to so-called new gTLDs like .top and .work, it should be considered mainstream. After all, many institutions in Hong Kong have adopted .hk domains. Last year, when I looked at my university's thesis advisor list, I saw a professor from Lingnan University whose email was @ln.hk. If someone in academia can use a .hk email, then I think the .hk domain is quite well recognized. Using it for email would certainly be more formal than those so-called new gTLDs.
# After switching to the new domain, what happens to the old ones?
Once the ICP filing number is approved, this site will officially use the new domain. Meanwhile, the original J9.GS and J9.GS.CN will continue to be used as domain aliases, i.e., 301 redirects from J9.GS to 7v.hk.
# How to handle the friend links issue?
Once this site's filing number is approved, I will contact my friend-link partners one by one and notify them to update the old domain to the new one.
# What about your Hong Kong server?
To be honest, I plan to shut down this small server. Its only purpose before was that my blog couldn't be filed, but now that my blog has obtained an ultra-short domain that supports filing, it has essentially completed its mission. The only thing left to resolve is my friends iEastblues.cn and RhineLab.ac.cn—both of their domains were previously hosted on my server, and their sites need to resolve the server hosting issue. This will have to wait until the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approves the ICP filing number before we can figure out how to handle it.