The Unreal Universe A Book on Physics and Philosophy “For thinking laymen.” Recently KC spotted the following news about the progress of China’s CCTLD process ============= Separately, the ICANN Board approved two simultaneous delegation requests to proceed to the String Delegation step of the fast track process. China requested simultaneous delegation of simplified and traditional [...]

Contrary to my early speculation of China not allowing ccTLD for Hong Kong and Taiwan for sovereignty reason, the ICANN announcements confirms Taiwan and even Hong Kong are going to have their own ccTLD. Both China and Taiwan will implement their ccTLD in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese, in sync. Based on my understanding, this [...]

Exciting news! ===== ICANN passes resolution to China’s IDN ccTLD applications Sources close to this matter disclosed that ICANN aims to approve “.China” as early as April.

According to Chinese news this month, China has suspended ALL oversea (incl HK, Macau, and Taiwan) registration of .cn and .中国. Within China, while the policy is still confusing, it’s likely registration will be limited to companies only. So company registration copy and company seal are required. Also, rumors are flying that the government is [...]