<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Dec 28, 2013 at 5:22 PM, Eduardo Tr¨¢pani <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:etrapani@gmail.com" target="_blank">etrapani@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi,<br>
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A few days ago I found this text in the .cn article in Wikipedia[1]:<br>
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> CNNIC proposes Chinese domain names in .¹«Ë¾ (".com" in Chinese) and .ÍøÂç (".net" in Chinese). However, these are not recognized by ICANN and are only available via domestic domain name registrar.<br>
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Wondering if that could ever happen (a domestic TLD) I found out that an<br>
agreement had been reached with ICANN on Nov 13 2013[2][3], so that the<br>
Wikipedia page is no longer correct.<br>
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*But* I still don't know though if for a while they did use those<br>
domains or not. I guess it wouldn't make a lot of sense to have country-<br>
or region-wide TLDs, but they could be used. And having them in use<br>
could help them getting the approval from ICANN. Does anybody know more<br>
about this? It's interesting...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>The Chinese TLDs operated against a principle that ICANN has defended since its existence, described in 2001's ICP-3:</div><div><a href="http://www.icann.org/en/about/unique-authoritative-root">http://www.icann.org/en/about/unique-authoritative-root</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>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. </div><div>
<br></div><div>Rubens</div><div><br></div><div> </div></div></div></div>