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China wants a Dot China in Chinese
Tuesday, May 12. 2009
According to Chinese media, a nationwide campaign has been launched to promote the use of a .CHINA extension in local characters (.??). Chinese registry officials are quoted as saying that developing this TLD would boost Internet use and popularity in China.
But it's unclear whether the campaign is focusing on an IDN .CHINA TLD, as part of ICANN's current fast track towards the prompt release of local character set TLDs, or if this is a home grown initiative.
One news story says that "so far, 90 percent of national provincial or ministerial-level government organizations, 95 percent of traditional media websites, over 90 percent of the 211-engineering universities, over 50 percent of China's top 100 enterprises and over 40 percent of China's top 500 enterprises have already registered to use the .?? domain name."
Either we're talking a petition of some kind in support of a .?? or there's some local scheme to develop a Chinese character domain under the country's ccTLD .CN. The story goes on to say that "it is expected that within the next two years, China's mainstream websites will all be using the .?? domain name."
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Mmm... now that I re-read the original article it actually does not say CNNIC plans to apply for it .China (either as gTLD or IDN fast-track)... but only they are actively promoting it so that people use it more.
CNNIC has been offering CDNs for years (http://cnnic.cn/html/Dir/2005/10/11/3218.htm), a .IDN alternative root that obviously only works in China where they control the nameservers and can make them resolve even if they are not in ICANN´s root
CNNIC has been offering CDNs for years (http://cnnic.cn/html/Dir/2005/10/11/3218.htm), a .IDN alternative root that obviously only works in China where they control the nameservers and can make them resolve even if they are not in ICANN´s root
