ICANN announces new Universal Top-level global application list yesterday evening

Summary: ICANN yesterday evening officially announced the new generic top-level domain name global application list, 54 Chinese organizations apply for 87 new top-level domain names, Citic Group, Jingdong Mall, Sohu, Renren and other companies are appearing in this application list. ICANN data show that 115 of the world's

ICANN yesterday evening officially announced the new generic top-level domain name global application list, 54 Chinese organizations to apply for 87 new top-level domain names, Citic Group, Jingdong Mall, Sohu, Renren and other companies are appearing in the application list.

ICANN data show that 1154 institutions worldwide have applied for 1930 new top-level domain names, in addition to the traditional English characters, including international domain Names (IDNs), such as Chinese, French, Arabic and other languages of the new top-level domain. The application fee for each new top-level domain is USD 185,000, and ICANN has received more than 350 million dollars for only one application fee. The number of Chinese institutions applying for top-level domain names is 87, accounting for only 4.5% of global applications. In particular, most international large enterprises apply their own brand of top-level domain names, such as. Apple,. McDonalds and so on.

According to the list announced by ICANN, the new top-level domain names applied by Chinese institutions are grouped into three categories: the first is to provide a public registration service for the general business domain name, such as CNNIC application of the ". Company" and ". Network" two Chinese domain names; the other is the Enterprise brand domain name, such as Citic, Sohu application of ". Citic", ". Sohu The other is geographical name domain names such as ". Guangzhou" and so on, in addition, there are enterprises to apply ". I love you". Personalized domain name provides public registration.

The new top-level domain name expands after that means the previous ". com", ". cn", such as domain names, in the future can be used in the form of ". Shop", ". Sohu" ". Citic", which will inevitably change the user's domain name demand pattern, greatly enhance the global brand value of enterprises, enhance competitiveness, Even creating new business models, the pattern of the Internet could change dramatically.

Since ICANN's decision to open the new top-level domain on June 20, 2011, its huge business opportunities have attracted worldwide attention. This round of new top-level domain applications are very enthusiastic, similar to ". Web", ". Shop" and other domain names have multiple applicants, the final need to auction the way to decide who to spend. The scarcity of the new top-level domain will lead to fierce competition, industry insiders expect some of the hottest top-level domain auction price will be as high as tens of millions of U.S. dollars.

According to industry experts, the application is only the first step to obtain a new top-level domain, but also through ICANN's complex audits, objections, auctions and other procedures. The applicant commissioned by the agency hosting company has the ability to meet the ICANN-related standards of the technical operational platform and long-term operations to manage the domain name, as well as the next step to understand the bidding process knowledge is the impact of the final approval of the important factors.

The following are the names of mainland Chinese companies and the new top-level domain names they apply for:

Patriot:. Aigo

Qihoo 360:. Anquan,. Xihuan,. YUN,. SHOUJI

Baidu:. BAIDU

Sina:. WEIBO, Weibo,. SINA

Tencent:. WEIBO, Weibo

Sohu:. SOHU

Sohu Tour:. Cyou,. GAME

China Unicom (Weibo): UNICOM Unicom

CITIC Bank:. CITIC, Citic

ICBC:. Icbc

35 interconnection:. Life

Thousand oak Netscape:. REN

Jingdong Mall:. Shop

Jiangsu State Ning:. Top

Red Jui haute couture:. Redstone

Elegant Leader:.xin

CNNIC: Company, network

Government and public welfare institutions domain name Registration Management Center: public Welfare,.

Volkswagen China: Volkswagen motor

Xinhua News Agency, Guangdong branch:.

Beijing tele-info Receptacle Marvell Co., Ltd.: Information

Beijing ritt-net Marvell Development Co., Ltd.: Mobile

RISE victory 2¥q:. Fashion,. Web site

Guangzhou YU Wei Information Marvell Co., Ltd.: Shenzhen, Foshan, Guangdong, Guangzhou