"In a move that ignores the U.S. stranglehold on domain names, China has announced it will start its own domain-name system beginning tomorrow, reports the People's Daily Online.

China's Ministry of Information Industry plans to add three top-level domain names: dot-net, and dot-com and dot-net.

The on-line newspaper says that this means "Internet users don't have to surf the Web via the servers under the management of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers of the United States."
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"The move puts the Ministry of Information Industry in competition with ICANN for the dot-com domain, although China will use a different character set."...............

"U.S. control over the Internet, he said, "would accordingly prove illusory."

The two systems could, in theory, co-exist if Internet providers recognize both of them, but the system would create a conflict if both roots contained identical extensions."

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servl...ogy/columnists

Holy crap this can be a huuuuge news good and bad...
Ohh my
Anyway does the net needs to be regulated by the US?

Originally posted by Pulp

Anyway does the net needs to be regulated by the US?

I don't think so. Perhaps the Chinese govt is planning to force Chinese isp's to adopt the new system?

Well from my understanding its basically an IDN of the TLD so .com is translated in chinese character.
I think its a HUUUGE thing if you ask me.
Will see.
I think chinese user have to switch something in order to write .com but I am not sure on how their Keyboard works.

An article about it:

China splits from the internet, probably not...

http://www.commentwire.com/article_n...9-A86456D858BB

http://www.domainstate.com/showthrea...threadid=59330

...Combine an authoritarian government's PR machine, the Chinese media, a highly technical subject matter, and a far from eloquent translation into English, and the assertion that China has split from ICANN may be unreliable.

As of press time, ICANN staffers we spoke to did not have the final word from China on what had happened, but there was a sense that it was not as bad as some reports had made out.

John Klensin, former head of the Internet Architecture Board, told us he believes that China has not in fact launched its own rival DNS root. It's more likely the country has just updated the Chinese naming system that has been active for many months.

"There's probably some desire here to make a splash with this news, and it could be less to do with the DNS than you'd like to think," said Klensin, who now, retired, works as a consultant with several East Asian organizations on internationalized domain name matters.

"As far as I can tell, what they're doing is using DNS forwarders, much like ISPs do," he said. "If you get something that looks like a top-level domain in Chinese, you append .cn to it and then resolve it... it's not something we should get excited about....

NY Times 2007

Americans have become disenchanted with .com this past year after arriving on .com sites and being served up chinese .

Billy Bob from Little Rock Arkansas claims it's a communist plot by them dammend liberals and refuses to go to any .com site ever again

Bob Hankery of NY NY says he has also stopped visiting .com sites , simply refuses to type them and refuses to click on them in the search engines.

His new preference is any website with the good old .US extension claiming that at least he knows the language .

Bob isnt alone , after China setup their conflicting .com addresses causing majoring outages of ICANNs .com nearly All US companies have changed strategies and have set-up shop on .US .

.com registrations have fallen by 80% in 2007 and .US has surged to over 30 Million registrations in a little under 2 years .

In other news, Lord Lucan has been found riding shergar on the moon.

Originally posted by safesys
In other news, Lord Lucan has been found riding shergar on the moon.

Thats disgusting safe ..at least my stories are clean

I say Great! Obviously Bush's arogance won over the UN and ICANN yet again caved in to Verisign. China's just proving there is in fact a solution to the current internet control arogance.

Given the huge potential dollars involved, and the threat of eurpoean ccTLDs doing something similar, I'd bet this is ust the tip of the iceburge of what might well happen regarding "splitting the root" -- And all Europe wanted to do was host their own root servers as I recall.

So now ICANN get to prove it's ability to maintain stability of the internet.

Well we Europeans tried to reason with you in the States! No matter what though this is not good news, it is now a story I think of 'once the door was opened all ran out'.

Remember here in the UK we have suffered decades of having to get permission from the states for every piece of computer hardware we sold abroad. We kept by an agreement originally based in the 40's and 50's, and we feel a little perturbed by the high handed matter of the States keeping control of the net.

It's strange that with ccTLD's on the rise and the deminishing quantity of anything like meaningful .com's that this kind of action by a powerful body (the Chinese government) has taken anyone by surprise. The horse has bolted and as from tomorrow it could well be a lot of dotcom portfolios are worth a lot less than they were this morning.

What china does with its internet access won't have much of a negative impact on values imo.

Even if it did come down to a choice, its very unlikely non china-orientated isp's (especially western) would resolve a chinese .com root over the existing ICANN one. China hasn't exactly had a largescale impact on existing domain sales and revenue.

Originally posted by safesys
What china does with its internet access won't have much of a negative impact on values imo.

Even if it did come down to a choice, its very unlikely non china-orientated isp's (especially western) would resolve a chinese .com root over the existing ICANN one. China hasn't exactly had a largescale impact on existing domain sales and revenue.

If it truly happens the way its being reported, China may the first one to bolt but most probably NOT the last/only one....others may follow. This has the potential for setting in motion what might be the end of *Global* nature of the Internet....ccTLDs might well the big beneficries at the cost of gTLDS of a move like this!

Originally posted by WildGirl
No matter what though this is not good news, it is now a story I think of 'once the door was opened all ran out'.

It's *GREAT NEWS*!

Internet users have finally found their voice: Create their own ROOT. Now if ICANN wants to provide them a voice "within the good'oll boy network" then I'm sure everyone will get together -- Need Daddy Bush's permission of course.

Only the ignorant want to split the root, and splitting it is a wise way to get the voice we're *SUPPOSED* to allready have.

I say eurpoeans take the hint and extract your TLDs from the current ICANN ROOT and setup your ROOT servers. Nows the best time to do it! ICANN and Georgy *WILL* listen to that given China's move.