I still remember saying in the article below a few days ago that I had 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 domain had actually been released. Without a second thought, I bought it right away, afraid that someone else would register it 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 really does seem 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 a Hong Kong server to a mainland China server, and will be renamed from doyen·Story to SevenVee.
To be honest, after using a domain for so long, I am 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 again call my website a "strange link" or "unknown link." The .GS domain happens to fall outside China's internet domain system. Although it is short and easy to remember, it cannot be filed. Now that there is a domain that has its advantages and also supports ICP filing, I naturally would not pass it up.
Of course, I have also now changed my personal email to xiheng@7v.hk. A short domain really does have its benefits—it is easier to remember.
Is the .hk domain a non-mainstream domain?
From a certain perspective, it counts as a non-mainstream domain, but that is relative to .com domains. If compared with so-called new generic top-level domains like .top and .work, it should count as a mainstream domain. After all, many institutions in Hong Kong have adopted .hk domains. Last year, in my university's list of thesis supervisors, I saw a professor from Lingnan University whose email was @ln.hk. Since someone can use a .hk email domain in academia, I think the .hk domain must be quite well recognized. Using it for email would certainly be much more formal than those so-called new generic top-level domains.
After switching to the new domain, what will happen to the original domain?
Once the ICP filing number is approved, this site will officially use the new domain. At the same time, the original J9.GS and J9.GS.CN will continue to be used as domain aliases, that is, through 301 redirects from J9.GS to 7v.hk.
How will the friend links issue be resolved?
Once this site's filing number is approved, I will contact my friend-link friends one by one and notify them to replace the original domain with the new one.
How will you handle your Hong Kong server?
To be honest, I plan to shut down this small server. Previously, the only reason it existed was that my blog could not be filed, but now that my blog has obtained an ultra-short domain that can be filed, it has pretty much completed its mission. The only thing that still needs to be resolved is my friends iEastblues.cn and RhineLab.ac.cn. Both of their domains were previously hosted on my server, and their websites need to resolve the server hosting issue. This problem will have to wait until the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology approves the ICP filing number before we can see how to resolve it.
