Chinese national code top-level domain ". China" will be officially opened

Source: Internet
Author: User
Keywords China Internet enabled Chinese domain name

In addition to traditional. cn,. com,. NET English http://www.aliyun.com/zixun/aggregation/38382.html "> Domain suffix, the Internet will be the first" China "such a non-English domain name suffix.

The ICANN Council unanimously passed an important resolution to allow other languages, including Chinese, to be used as the Internet's top-level domain characters, the correspondent said yesterday.

The resolution includes, ". China" will be the first in the first half of 2009 to write the global root domain Name System, become one of the first new non-Latin language character top-level domain, that is, the Chinese country code top-level domain "China domain name" will be officially enabled.

Senior industry insiders believe that the "Chinese domain Name" officially opened, means that "China's domain name" will be formally integrated into the Internet, as a Chinese culture on the network of national symbols on the stage of history.

In short, Chinese users in the browser address bar in the future can not only enter the English domain name lenovo.com.cn to visit Lenovo Company's website, but also directly enter the Chinese domain name "Lenovo. China" to complete this operation.

In this respect, Tras, ICANN's chairman, Peterdengatethrush that this is a historic resolution that will bring huge changes to the Internet's style and operating patterns, making the Internet more open and more versatile.

ICANN's director, Chan Hualin, a leading internet expert in China, points out that there are more than 200 million internet users in China, which means that more than 1 billion people are still not online. Pure Chinese "Chinese domain name" is not only for the current netizen preparation, but also for the future of the hundreds of millions of Chinese people ready.

According to the introduction, "Chinese domain name" Official access to the Internet, China's internet industry has been the result of years of efforts. For Chinese internet users, China's domain name is undoubtedly the brand name in Chinese enterprises and institutions in the network the best brand carrier.

Currently, the Internet top-level domain Name system only supports 37 characters including 26 English letters, hyphens and Arabic numerals 0 to 9. The resolution means that the domain Name System (Dns-domainnamesystem), which was born in 1983, will truly usher in the top-level domain of the world's major languages, including Chinese, after 25 years of "dominating" the English language.

Author: Ma Xiaofang (Source: First Financial daily)

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