[lacnog] Can "domestic TLD" exist?

[Alessandro Martins]

Hello,

The CNNIC used the gTLD registry process?


Alessandro Martins
http://br.linkedin.com/in/xsandro/


On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk en gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Eduardo Trápani <etrapani en gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
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>> A few days ago I found this text in the .cn article in Wikipedia[1]:
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>> > CNNIC proposes Chinese domain names in .公司 (".com" in Chinese) and .网络
>> > (".net" in Chinese). However, these are not recognized by ICANN and are only
>> > available via domestic domain name registrar.
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>> Wondering if that could ever happen (a domestic TLD) I found out that an
>> agreement had been reached with ICANN on Nov 13 2013[2][3], so that the
>> Wikipedia page is no longer correct.
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>> *But* I still don't know though if for a while they did use those
>> domains or not. I guess it wouldn't make a lot of sense to have country-
>> or region-wide TLDs, but they could be used. And having them in use
>> could help them getting the approval from ICANN. Does anybody know more
>> about this? It's interesting...
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> The Chinese TLDs operated against a principle that ICANN has defended since
> its existence, described in 2001's ICP-3:
> http://www.icann.org/en/about/unique-authoritative-root
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> What now happened is they have applied thru the existing expansion process
> and were granted the TLDs as nobody else applied for it, so now the Chinese
> root and the ICANN root will converge.
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> Rubens
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