Making Chinese Internet History
This past week was quite the historical change for the Internet with several additional languages moving forward in the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process. Chinese: With one billion people around the world using Chinese as their primary language, it means that one out of every five people on the planet can have benefit from the introduction of the newly approved Chinese extensions: • .中国 and .中國 – CNNIC – the China Internet Network Information Center http://www.cnnic.cn • .香港 – HKIRC – Hong Kong Internet Registration Corporation Limited http://www.hkirc.hk • .台灣 and .台湾- TWNIC – Taiwan Network Information Center http://www.twnic.tw This is also the first time that variants are allowed at top-level domains or extensions for the Internet. For CNNIC and TWNIC they each have two variants approved for delegation. Both organizations have over a decade in variant operational experience, and have published implementation plans that describe how the variants are to be managed. We hope to get some good experience in these launches that can be used generally for TLD variant management and help us make this available for others as well. At lot of people are of course asking...
Published By: ICANN blog » IDNs - Saturday, 17 September, 2011
