A man from Xiamen, Fujian, is negotiating with three companies to sell the domain name www.aizhongguo.com ("ai zhongguo" means "love China"), and his price is 1.3 billion yuan ($167.6 million). The man, surnamed Zhuang, boasted he had registered several hundred domain names to meet the demand of his clients, and he said he didn't want www.aizhongguo.com to be used by someone for a vicious purpose. If a deal were made at Zhuang's price, the domain would be the most expensive one in the world.

(Xiamen Evening New)