Posts Tagged ‘Chinese characters domains’

ICANN Head Visiting China After ‘dot-China’ Request

Posted on March 13, 2010, 3:00 pm, by IDN News, under IDN Industry.

The head of the global Internet addressing authority will visit China this week, according to people briefed on the matter, highlighting questions about China’s Web censorship after it applied to offer domain names that end with Chinese characters. Rod Beckstrom, CEO of the California-based Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), will visit China […]

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Coming in 2009: Yourname@somewhere.中国

Posted on October 16, 2008, 6:50 pm, by Graham Webster, under Exclusive.

The era of online domination by the Roman alphabet will come one step closer to its end next year when a new top-level domain for China, .中国, is deployed. Xinhua reports that ICANN expects the domain, which uses the two-character modern Chinese word for “China,” will be ready in …

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