“.中国” to be Global Top Level Domain Name
ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced recently in South Korea that Chinese, Arabic and Korean as well as other non-Latin characters could be used in registering domain names, reporter learned from CINIC (China Internet Network Information Center). This is a great step in the reform and improvement for Internet domain name system towards opening up to more languages and characters.
Qi Lin, the assistant director of CINIC said that the non-English domain names’ application and deployment would be “fast tracked” hereafter. With several International standards for the Internet and nearly ten-years running and technical support experience, “.中国”, representing the Chinese top-level domain names is expected to be the world’s first simplified Chinese top level domain name. Internet users will be able to use simplified Chinese to access to the Internet anywhere in the world.
At present, Microsoft IE, Google Chrome, Firefox and other main browsers have achieved barrier-free support for “.中国”. While search engines like Google and Yahoo have begun to record the web sites with the domain name “.中国”.
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I am sure that .中国 will be bigger than .cn. It will possibly be the largest ccTLD in the world in a few years time.
According to the most popular Chinese websites Chinese Internet users access them via the search engines, not via the Latin .cn domains, which would be a shortcut, if you just knew how to spell the address. With .中国 you will gain this shortcut, which will give more power to URL traffic in China