By: Owen Fletcher - IDG News Service (Beijing Bureau)(NA) (26 Aug 2009)
China expects domain names that end in Chinese characters to be mainstream in two years. The government recently deployed Internet domain names written in Chinese
China has pushed ahead with deploying Internet domain names written in Chinese as it urges action to standardize their use globally.
More than 300 million people in China now use the Internet, which puts it on pace to have the largest number of Internet users in the world this year.
Earlier statistics released by industry groups show an increase in global disputes over Web domain names.
China has solved most of the technical problems raised by Chinese-language domain names and is in the process of deploying them, said Zhang Jian, director of the international business department at the country's domain registration agency, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), in an interview Wednesday.
Within two years, the agency expects all mainstream Web sites in the country will have domain names that end in the two Chinese characters for "China," rather than the .cn top-level domain. It also expects those domain names to become the most widely visited by Chinese Internet users.
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