"China domain name" global deployment plan has taken shape

BEIJING, Beijing, October 21 (Wu Qi) The head of the World Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently said in Beijing that China has the operational capability of ". 中国" domain names. Starting from 2009, the ".China" domain name will appear on the Internet, which means that the full Chinese logo email address (such as ××××××× .China) will be used, and the English era of mailbox registration will be broken.

Starting in 2009, ICANN will allow other languages, including Chinese, to be used as Internet top-level domain characters, and the ". China" domain name will appear on the Internet. Paul Tome, president and CEO of ICANN, said deployment plans to write ".China" domain names and other non-English domain name suffixes into the global root domain name system have taken shape and will be open for application by regulators from May to June next year.

Shenyang News today reported: "China domain name" global deployment plan has been formed

"China" into the global root domain name system or speed. Recently, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) launched a global deployment investigation of non-English domain name suffixes such as Chinese and selected the first stop in China.

Paul Tome, President and CEO of ICANN, said deployment plans to write ".China" domain names and other non-English domain name suffixes into the global root domain name system have taken shape and will be open for application by regulators in May and June next year.

On Oct. 2, ICANN President and CEO Paul Tome sent an open letter to governments and their respective domain name registries to solicit opinions and suggestions from all countries regarding the inclusion of non-English domain name suffixes such as Chinese into the Global Root Zone Names System Launch relevant global deployment research policy.

Around the deployment policy of ".China" domain names and other non-English domain name suffixes into the global root domain name system, the president of ICANN sought the opinions and suggestions of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the registries of ".China" domain names. Zhang Jian, a Chinese expert at ICANN, said China already has the operational capability of ". 中国" domain names.

Data show that the total number of Internet users in China has exceeded 253 million, ranking first in the world. In addition, there are still 1 billion Internet users in China. Whether it is meeting the needs of 253 million Internet users or the future demand of 1 billion non-Internet users, it is imperative for Chinese to surf the Internet in China.

Paul Tome, President and CEO of ICANN, emphasized that ICANN has established a "fast-track policy" that allows qualified suffixes such as "China" to be written into the global root domain name system as soon as possible.

In June of this year, ICANN adopted a resolution in Paris to write non-English characters such as ". China" into the global root domain name system. Subsequently, CNNIC launched the "China Domain Name Global Upgrading Initiative". According to the upgrade, all registered users of the domain name "Chinese.CN" will automatically obtain the corresponding "Chinese.China" domain name.

After the ".China" domain name is written into the global root domain name system, these automatically obtained "Chinese.China" domain names will be simultaneously upgraded to the "China Domain Name" global root domain name system registry for global Internet access.

It is reported that ". China" and other non-English domain name suffix deployment plan and other content will be an important issue in ICANN Cairo in November, ICANN will announce more detailed plans and timetable, "... China" domain name into the global root domain name The process of the system will be further clarified.