China creates own Internet domains

[Bender]

Pretty interesting news:

http://news.com.com/China+creates+own+Internet+domains/2100-1028_3-6044629.html?tag=nefd.top

 

[namewaiter]

WOW .. so controlling and will create a debacle for sure.

 

[NameYourself]

This has got to be one of the BIGGEST stories in the domain industry to this day. It's impact will be huge on anyone investing in chinese names. They are taking a step backward in the progress of the internet.

 

[Bill Roy]

This IS the biggest story, suddenly we all have to look at the portfolios we hold and analyse them, all the domains. I have just got off the phone to a friend who was about to sell a prime (very prime) ccTLD, he has decided to wait 48 hours (if he is right it has just increased in value whereby he is reducing the value of his dotcoms by 10% instantly).

I am glad I didn't buy sex.com for $12million or whatever it was a couple of weeks ago!

BillBo

 

[NameYourself]

It's impact more or less will be primarily limited to Chinese names in the .com, .net, and .cn extensions. If it isn't a domain that is receiving "Chinese" traffic, then it shouldn't be affected.

 

[JMJ]

Big story but China's economy depends largely on exports. There are loads of Chinese businesses who wish to target those consumers. By creating their own DNS it would eliminate that opportunity. It won't take them long to figure this out.

 

[Sarcle]

It's so nice to see that reporters actually follow up on a story. The major news orgs should be embarrased really. But this just proves the importance of idn and icann getting the dname to resolve, and quickly.

However, ICANN officials contacted the Chinese Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), which oversees the country's .cn top-level domain, after the report was published and were told there are no new Chinese top-level domains. The report may have resulted from a misunderstanding of work already in progress that involves second-level domains, according to Tina Dam, ICANN's chief GTLD (generic top-level domain) registry liaison.

http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;565784098;fp;16;fpid;0

I would also like to add this quote which confirms that idn reality.

but ICANN has been working toward providing top-level domain in different character sets, including Chinese

 

[NameYourself]

So this whole separate internet for China thing never happened then... The reports were false?

 

[Sarcle]

So this whole separate internet for China thing never happened then... The reports were false?

It would see that way. Just some over zealous reporters acting to quickly without following leads. Bad news for reporters, good news for people with IDNs.

 

[Anthony Ng]

The Chinese people have ALWAYS been browsing their own Internet (or a HUGE Intranet in a sense) anyway.

 

[EGS]

Aren't Chinese domain entrepeneurs the ones who mostly own all those domains with no sites and just parking pages to make money off of PPC ads, kind of like what SEDO offers? :-o

 

[DryHeat]

So this whole separate internet for China thing never happened then... The reports were false?

This particular news might have been incorrectly reported but the fact that so many instinctively interpreted it the way they did and believed in as it was reported is quite telling by itself; may be sub-consciously many feel that such balkanization of the Internet is a real possibility, especially with its ever growing importance and adoption by so many diametrically opposing interests on the planet. In the long run, IMO, such concerns would only serve to strengthen the importance and value of ccTLDs at the cost of gTLDs to varying degrees.

 

[Sarcle]

This particular news might have been incorrectly reported

That's just it. That's what you do as a reporter. You check facts, then you recheck facts by rechecking facts again. Everyone was going off about how China is doing this and China is doing that without, huh, thinking of calling China.

This was a simple misintrepation of language from a website, call it lost in translation. And everyone is already on the "HANG" China rope and are willing to push it as far as they can.

In the long run, IMO, such concerns would only serve to strengthen the importance and value of ccTLDs at the cost of gTLDs to varying degrees.

In the long run it just shows how important getting domains in their native language (ie. IDN) are and that Icann had better get of it's hump and get it done!

 

[DryHeat]

In the long run it just shows how important getting domains in their native language (ie. IDN) are and that Icann had better get of it's hump and get it done!

Leaving the IDN mantra aside, yes, thats just another angle on what I'd just said; i.e. growing emphasis on localization rather than globalization of the Internet with corresponding increase in the importance of ccTLDs...since ultimately, it'd be only the ccTLDs that each individual nation/government would find practical to manage and control according to their specific needs and desires.