.cn for 2nd level on March 17 2003

[mole]

China Unveils Rules for Easier Access to Domain Names
Internet domain name applicants inChina have been authorized to add directly their organization title before the ".cn" suffix without having to specify their organizations' categories like ".com" or ".net" beginning March 17.

Internet domain name applicants in China have been authorized to add directly their organization title before the ".cn" suffix without having to specify their organizations' categories like ".com" or ".net" beginning March 17.

The Ministry of Information Industry, the highest authority overseeing China's IT industry, released new regulations on domainname Thursday, aiming to speed up China's Internet development andprotect its information security.

Statistics indicate that since the registration process is mucheasier in foreign countries, about 80 to 90 percent of China's users have registered their domain names with the ".com" or ".net"suffixes used abroad.

Domain names with the ".cn" suffix have grown form 4,066 in 1997 to around 126,146 by the end of June 2002, according to the paper.

The paper quoted Qian Hualin with the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) as saying that the regulation is aimed to provide easier and quicker access to domain name applicants.

Currently, every ".cn" user is charged 300 yuan (about 36 US dollars) each year.

[crabby]

Does that mean we waste money and time by registering .com.cn names?

[mole]

Yes

[MarkMitford]

As I said in an earlier thread it's my opinion that its worth it if you find a good name thats still avaiable but you should really be saving your big bucks for the March landrush on registrations directly under .cn.

You will probably see thousands of new .com.cn names today but tens of thousands of .cn's in March.

[mole]

Tis the night before comcn,
And all through the dnforum
not a creature is stirring...

[MarkMitford]

As an FYI Dotster was successful in registering 95.2% of available names in our queue.

Now onto March and the .CN landgrab.

Mark......

[Tee]

Good to hear.

[TrafficMonsterRRR]

Excuse my ignorance. I am sure thre is a simple answer to this, I just don;t know where to find it...

"Internet domain name applicants in China have been authorized to add directly their organization title before the ".cn" ...beginning March 17." and:


"Domain names with the ".cn" suffix have grown form 4,066 in 1997 to around 126,146 by the end of June 2002,.."

My silly question is Are these 126,146 (many more by now i am sure) .com.cn +.net.cn + .org.cn, or are they previsouly regged .cn names? Can anyone (ie China residents, the Chinese Gov?) reg .cn names now (without the .com .net .org 2nd lvl)?

TIA!

[MarkMitford]

Its my understanding that the 140K or so currently registered names are under .com.cn, org.cn and net.cn.

Registration directly under .cn is not currently allowed to anyone.

Here are some stats: http://www.cnnic.net.cn/e-domain.shtml

[star]

Yep,I heard who chinese has .com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn could pre reg the same .cn name from now till February 28,2003.
Who will finally get the name base on his com/net/org.cn's reg date.

[dvdrip]

Where did you hear this?
It is very intersting!

Originally posted by star
Yep,I heard who chinese has .com.cn/.net.cn/.org.cn could pre reg the same .cn name from now till February 28,2003.
Who will finally get the name base on his com/net/org.cn's reg date.

[pljones]

This is big news. Can someone post a link to this information on the March 17 release date?

[cxz]

Is there a working whois record for com.cn landrush names?

[star]

Okey,if you can read in chinese,you will find out these news from some China Registrars' popup windows.
Such as:
http://www.chinadns.com
http://www.china-channel.com
etc.

[wwww]

Is this pre-registration advance only valid for chinese citizens or for everyone who owns a .com.cn?

If yes, where can I get information in English about it?

Thanks in advance

[star]

Sorry.Since I haven't seen any official statement on it, I can't make sure too.

[cxz]

.

[mole]

Second level romanised .cn still have a good future... but will IDNA strike back?

Multilingual top-level domains are far off, ICANN says

By Joris Evers
December 16, 2002 7:33 am PT


SECOND-LEVEL DOMAIN NAMES in Chinese, Japanese or Korean will be abundant by late 2003, but a version of ".com" or ".museum" in any of those languages is a long way off, an executive of the group that oversees the Internet naming system said Sunday.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) wants to see how multilingual second-level domains work before it starts work on the top-level domain (TLD) space, Masanobu Katoh, chairman of ICANN's Internationalized Domain Names (IDN) committee and a member of the ICANN board of directors said in an interview.

A second-level domain is the name that comes before the ".com." In "sony.com," for example, Sony is the second level and ".com" is the top level.

ICANN's board voted to extend the life of the IDN committee until the end of 2004 on Sunday here at the organizations annual meeting. Also, the committee will get extra help for its work on multilingual domains from technical specialists as well as linguists. Originally, the IDN committee was set to end its work this year.

"It is probably optimistic to say that we will finish by 2004," said Katoh.

ICANN, based in Marina del Rey, Calif., has to look at the technical aspects of the implementation, but also issues such as dispute resolution, said Katoh, who predicts Japanese, Chinese and Korean second-level domain names to boom in 2003. Arabic and Cyrillic names won't be available for a while, he said.

The IDN working group of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), a standards-setting body, late October released a first mechanism for handling internationalized domain names in a standard fashion. The IETF group is also represented in ICANN's IDN committee.

The Internet's Domain Name System (DNS) was designed to support about 30 English-language ASCII characters. International domain names, however, draw from the 96,000-character Unicode repertoire. Domain names in other languages must be encoded in ASCII for transmission across the DNS or they won't work. IETF came up with a mechanism called IDNA to handle this.

IDNA allows the non-ASCII characters to be represented using only the ASCII characters. This backward-compatibility allows IDNs to be introduced with no changes to the DNS infrastructure.

About 1 million non-English language domain names have already been sold, some in the industry say. Users need special software to resolve those and E-mail to a multilingual domain is not possible, according to the VeriSign Inc. Web site. VeriSign already sells domain names in Japanese, Korean and Chinese characters.

Mountain View, Calif.-based VeriSign earlier this month even announced a deal with the national domain name registries in Japan and South Korea to support the registration and use of Japanese and Korean domain names. The registries will also distribute VeriSign's i-Nav plug-in software.

[dvdrip]

I guess the earliest registestration will take the .cn.
So it doesn't matter you own .com.cn or .org.cn.

[mole]

Originally posted by dvdrip
I guess the earliest registestration will take the .cn.
So it doesn't matter you own .com.cn or .org.cn.

Obviously, duh