CHINESE DOMAIN NAMES

Hello!!! Today let's speak about internationalized domain names in Asian countries, namely in China.

The end of the June, 2010 was was quite the historical change for the Internet with the Chinese language added to the IDN. This change is real step forward towards the Internet development, as Chinese is a mother tongue for one billion of people around the world. It means that one out of every five people on the planet can have benefit from the introduction of the newly approved Chinese extensions.

There are some examples of domain names, comprised of Chinese characters:

·        清华大学。cn  – Tsinghua University

·        北京大学。中国 - University of Beijing

In most cases Chinese sites possess both variants of their web addresses: Chinese and traditional Latin ones. But, in fact, Chinese URLs can be widely used similarly to Latin domain names.As one of basic Internet services, Chinese Domain Name can provide application services such as WWW, Email, FTP in Chinese operation systems.

Everyone who wants to register Chinese domain name can do it entering the site of the China Internet Network Information Center (http://www.cnnic.cn ). Here you can find all necessary information concerning this question.