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China may be planning to break away from ICANN and the
\n Domain Name System, after creating its own versions of several top-level
\n domains<\/p>\n
China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based
\n on Chinese characters.China has created three of its own top-level
\n domains that will use the domain names .cn, .com and .net, in Chinese.
\n The domain names were launched on Wednesday by the Chinese Ministry
\n of Information Industry.<\/p>\n
from ZDNet<\/a><\/p>\n We predicted this months ago (Alternet On the other hand, ICANN says it ain’t so….<\/em><\/p>\n However, ICANN officials contacted the Chinese Internet Network Information from PC World<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" China may be planning to break away from ICANN and the Domain Name System, after creating its own versions of several top-level domains China has announced it is creating a new set of domain names based on Chinese characters.China has … Continue reading
\n Rising<\/a>). It seems inevitable
\n that there will be some variety of many-tiered Internet in the future,
\n with variations in speed,
\n media-on-demand and access to restricted areas, but we prefer the model
\n wherein there is a universal global aether, so to speak, within which
\n users
\n and companies can establish areas of private access and specialized
\n services, rather than the Balkanization model wherein multiple and
\n mutually exclusive Internet universes compete with each other, as the
\n Chinese seem determined to establish.<\/em><\/p>\n
\n Center (CNNIC), which oversees the country’s .cn top-level domain, after
\n the report was published and were told there are no new Chinese top-level
\n domains. The report may have resulted from a misunderstanding of work
\n already in progress that involves second-level domains, according to
\n Tina Dam, ICANN’s chief GTLD (generic top-level domain) registry liaison.<\/p>\n