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Rebecca MacKinnon summarizes some of the issues under discussion at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers of interest to China: ICANN's relationship with the US government, generic top level domains, and "internationalized" TLDs written... ...full story at Danwei

from Danwei on Sat, Jul 04 2009

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04 Nov 09 visit ".中国" to be global top level domain name  »  People's Daily ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) announced recently in South Korea that Chinese, Arabic and Korean as well as other non-Latin characters could be used in registering domain names, reporter learned from CINIC (China Internet...
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