". China" domain name approved

Absrtact: June 25, the Chinese Domain name International application completes all the review process and finally gets the ICANN board vote. http://Tsinghua University. Does China look a little strange? Now, enter this line in the address bar of a computer browser anywhere in the world.

June 25, the ". China" domain name international application completes all the review links and eventually gets the ICANN board vote.

"http://Tsinghua University." Does China ——— look a little strange? Now, if you enter this address in the address bar of a computer browser anywhere in the world, you can visit Tsinghua University's website "www.tsinghua.edu.cn" and you no longer need to remember the English name of Tsinghua University.

Yesterday, Mao Wei, director of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), said that the ". China" international top-level Chinese domain name has been approved for entry into force and is now accepted worldwide.

Global Internet root domain Name System

China Internet Conference will be held in Beijing August 17 19th. According to Tencent Science and Technology report, 16th, in the Internet Conference Council, CNNIC director Mao Wei said, "China" International top Chinese Domain name has been approved for effective, will automatically upgrade the ". CN" Domain name to ". China", while supporting the simplified and traditional Chinese input.

The Southern Metropolitan newspaper reporter learned that, in fact, as early as July 10, the Internet name and Numbering Agency (ICANN) authorized the Internet Address Assignment Authority (IANA) to formally write the ". China" domain name to the global Internet root domain Name System (DNS). ". China" domain name Global resolution deployment completed.

From that day on, Internet users in the browser address bar directly entered the registered ". China" domain name to access the corresponding Web site.

Senior domain name experts, "China's domain name economy" in the editor-in-chief of Shenyang, said in an interview with South reporters, "China" domain name is the world's top Chinese domain name, has been incorporated into the global Internet root domain Name System, which means that anywhere in the world, its browser does not install any plug-ins, you can access the corresponding Web site directly through the domain name. "

Localization of website identification

The ". China" domain name incorporated into the global Internet root domain Name System was first reported at the 38th annual ICANN conference on June 25, when ICANN officials said it was a historic moment. At that time, CNNIC director Mao Wei said that the ICANN Council formally approved CNNIC's ". China" application, which is the major success of the Chinese domain name research in the past 10 years, and is recognized by the international community for its Chinese culture on the Internet.

Shenyang to the South reporters, and ". China" together to obtain the approval of the ". Hong Kong", "" Taiwan "," Singapore "and Japanese, Korean International top-level domain name," This is a big event for the internet all over the world, "Shenyang said," All the Internet scripts are English, now the recognition of the site has finally achieved localization, It is a great progress in the application of the Internet in the 40 that the nation's writings can be applied regardless of national boundaries. ”

"This is an exception," said Shenyang, which ICANN approved for the Chinese Simplified and traditional. Therefore, Jianfan can visit Tsinghua University, which has registered the ". China" domain name.

320 Yuan a year

South all reporters learned that China million network and other domain name registrars have provided ". China" registration Service, "Register a simplified Chinese domain name, automatically received traditional Chinese", 320 yuan a year.

The report said that the ". cn" Domain name automatically upgraded to ". China" has not been confirmed, China million network is currently implementing the policy is to register Chinese. CN domain name is given in Chinese ". China", and for English. CN does not have this service.

Shenyang said, generally speaking, ". China" domain name needs to apply to C N N IC, most websites will apply for Chinese. China, such as the Southern Metropolis newspaper, applied for "South China." In Shenyang's view, this is conducive to the promotion of many sites, after all, our mother tongue is Chinese "I have not been confused about Lenovo's English domain name how to write, but if it is ' Lenovo. China ' is easy to remember." ”

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Under the guidance of the relevant ministries and the Chinese Academy of Sciences, CNNIC began the technical research of "China" domain name in 1998, and has completed two international standards of Internet in this field, which solves the problem of the unification of variant words and variants in the domain name coding, as well as the simplified equivalent interchange in Chinese. Technical research and international applications around the global top-level domain name of pure Chinese are 10 years old.

At the ICANN conference in Paris in June 2008, the ICANN council voted for the first time to "allow the use of other languages, including Chinese, as the internet's top domain character".

During the period from 2008 to 2009, China's Internet technologists conducted extensive communication and coordination work with ICANN and the global Internet community around international policies, application rules and approval processes, and eventually promoted the international policy of the global top-level domain of national languages including ". China".

November 16, 2009, CNNIC to ICANN submitted the ". China" domain name international application. June 25, 2010, the ". China" domain name international application completes all the review link and finally obtains the ICA N n the council to vote to pass.

At the 38th annual ICANN conference, representatives of the global Chinese internet community, including Singapore, Japan, South Korea and Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, agreed that the ". China" domain name international application has been approved and is closely related to China's growing voice in the global Internet arena, Also with the vast number of Chinese Internet companies in the global Internet market has more and more influence inseparable.