Try a different whois service. A registrant certainly has the right to register .cn domain names and provide only Chinese characters, without having to convert to Latin characters (which they may not know). Try: http://whois.domaintools.com/abcde.cn

Yes, one can register domains that are full Chinese equivalent, without any Latin characters. They work in China and outside of China, however Latin character .cn domain names are more widely used.

By far the largest amount of similar domain names I see in the report is .cn, and most of those are typosquatted domain names. If our trademark is WIDGET, then I see wodget.cn, widgit.cn, wiidget.cn, etc. A large number of the Internet users in China use pinyin (writing Chinese words with Latin characters) than Chinese character when online (e.g. writing "zhong guo" for China instead of the Chinese characters).

My hunch is that with so many people in China typing with letters which they may not be completely familiar (and where there may be different ways to transliterate from Chinese to pinyin), there is a large number of people who make mistakes when directly navigating to domain names. I do not see these typosquatted domains showing up in search engine results, but I do see a large number of them being renewed (and thus they are generating a large enough pay per click revenue to be reregistered.)

It gives me a lot more work to do to monitor these. We don't really file the .cn UDRP equivalent, because there are literally hundreds of these domain names out there. I thus suspect that the large number of .cn domain names are for typosquatted domains for known domains, and not for actual legitimate commercial/personal use.

I guess you never listened to Backspin (Old School Hip Hip) or Boombox (Break beats and Mashups). Both channels are now gone, and have not been replaced by anything similar. Backspin's replacement is a contemporary rap station with an old school show every now and then, and Boombox purportedly is replaced by an alternative rock station.

I do not consider either of these acceptable replacements, and I am particularly peeved about Backspin (which I listened to 2nd only to Howard).