2010: Prediction for the coming year – Chinese domain industry
A list of 10 predictions made by Chinese netizens about what 2010 holds for the Chinese domaining industry.
1, Total .cn domain name registrations will likely reduce in numbers by year-end to less than 10 million
2, Chinese domain names “.中国” registrations is expected to exceed one million
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iResearch Consulting a leading Chinese internet research company, has released an interesting report on domain usage in China for 2008. The report portrays IDNs in a somewhat negative light, stating that English language domains are still greatly favoured over IDNs and IDNs have so far failed to make a impact. It is of course, pretty [...]
The largest recorded sale of an IDN for the month of 2009 was for the domain Nü.com (xn--n-eha.com), a turkish or danish word meaning either nude or now, which exchanged hands in a private sale for $14,200.
“China has solved most of the technical problems raised by Chinese-language domain names and is in the process of deploying them” – Zhang Jian (director of the international business department) at China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
Zhang Jian states that within two years, the agency expects all mainstream Web sites in the country will have [...]
Probably the first country to adopt IDNs and widely use them is Germany. The Germans have a large number of IDNs registered and in use, and there is an active market already for IDNs in both there country’s ccTLD .de and other major TLDs such as .com, .net and .biz.
Today DENIC, the manager of the [...]
Afilias will work with the CDNC to coordinate and collaborate with other registries to reach Chinese language Internet users with Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) technology.
BEIJING–(BUSINESS WIRE) – Aug. 06, 2009– Afilias, a global provider of Internet infrastructure services, today announced that it has joined the Chinese Domain Name Consortium (CDNC).
Afilias will work with the CDNC [...]
ICANN has declared a solution implemented a year ago, designed to bring an end to ‘domain tasting’, has been a success and has resulted in a drop of 99.7% of domain tasting.
At its peak, the practice of speculatively registering domain names for very short periods of time (less than 5 days) saw millions of dot-com [...]
Receiving a lot of press, ICANN has been busy promoting local language domains in the middle-east. Too bad no mention of IDNs already being in existence with presently available TLDs.
“ARAB COMPANIES TO GET ARABIC INTERNET DOMAINS: Arab companies will now be able to have internet domain names in their own language, the Internet Corporation for [...]