What is the King? IDN?

[dnol]

some say .com and .net are going to collapse?

and I admit that Chinese IDN is better and easier for me to type the Url on the browser,though I think I　am ok and custom to use english url or numbers like apple.cn and 999.com

so more and more liberate and democratic rules are set free and what will be the king?

[Edder]

Chinese IDN (at its current stage) is nothing more than a hassle, considering people have to type Chinese characters and THEN switch to english to type in ".com" or whatever extension. It seems more efficient for Chinese internet users to merely type a pin yin version of the site + .com (like they do for tudou.com).

I think .com and .net domains might suffer some short term depreciation if and when investors decide to short them. But in the long term, a collapse is far from happening in an age where globalization = money. It's no surprise that trend carries over to the domain name industry, where global TLD's mean money too.

[dnol]

Chinese people,most of them are not well educated,while they are looking for information,including political and business info,they have no idea where to start,they can buy computers,but they have no time to learn English,because they have no time and budget to learn even certain easy english.

That is why China government promote CDN.

most of Chinese know Chinese languages and they can visit these CDN ,or at least they can tell the other people to visit www.广东省政府.cn

[Edder]

It's interesting that the #1 search engine in China (baidu.com) neither owns 百度.com nor 百度.cn.

I'm not saying IDN's are pointless, but until there is a .中國, the system isn't really complete.. I will wait and see. Perhaps ICANN's new resolution will bring forth a monster opportunity for certain domainers.

Chinese people,most of them are not well educated,while they are looking for information,including political and business info,they have no idea where to start,they can buy computers,but they have no time to learn English,because they have no time and budget to learn even certain easy english.

That is why China government promote CDN.

most of Chinese know Chinese languages and they can visit these CDN ,or at least they can tell the other people to visit www.广东省政府.cn

[dnol]

while there was baidu.com ,CDN was not born,so baidu had no chance.
and baidu is not a Chinese words or vocabulary,or frequently used like

a farmer in China want to find the agr policy of government,so he will try to find 农业部.cn-agri department

by the way,is it the result that I mentiond cdn?
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