China Looking Into Chinese Net Domains
China is ramping up creation of a parallel system of net domains to tempt more Chinese people to go online. By using Chinese language net domains it aims to reach those people who do not speak English – still the most widely used language online. Makes perfect sense to me!
He said China had created three domains and when the Chinese characters in them were translated into English they were broadly equivalent to .com (gongsi), .net (wangluo) and China (zhongguo). These new domains act as an extension to China’s .cn country code, though this suffix will not appear when they are used online. The Chinese government has used its official clout to ensure wide use of the software download for web browsers that is needed to direct people to the right website.
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