China To Use Chinese Characters Domain Names
Cnet reports that the world’s most populous nation has created domain names based on Chinese characters.
The creation of Chinese character domain names has led to speculation that China could break away from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) completely, and undermine the global unity of the Domain Name System (DNS), the network of servers that resolves domain name requests.
nternet experts are concerned that this move will see China administrating its top-level domains with its own separate root servers, which could cause a split in the Internet.
“Fragmentation is a concern both to ICANN and us because of end-user confusion,” said Geir Rasmussen, chief executive of Global Name Registry, a domain name registration organisation that oversees the .name domain.
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