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China is moving full speed ahead in its plans to introduce a top-level-domain in the Chinese language. Like the current .cn TLD, the new country domain will use two characters. There have been technical hurdles to implementing Chinese characters in TLDs, but the China Internet Network Information Center now seems confident that it will happen.
As part of ICANN‘s push into the future, they recently announced plans to promote country domains in character sets other than the current standard Latin characters. China expects to make the new TLD its standard within two years, fully replacing the current .cn. They also expect them to become the most widely used by Chinese Web users.
China has recently come under a lot of fire for the wide usage of .cn domains to send SPAM and malware. The Chinese government says that it is handling the problem. One reason that cyber criminals prefer .cn, whether they are Chinese or not, is that the domains are extremely cheap, sometimes going for as low as USD$0.15.
Source: ComputerWorld
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