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Not So Imminent: Domain Names in Chinese

Icann will allow Web addresses to be expressed in Chinese characters, starting with government domains, but the change is unlikely to have any big immediate impact on the landscape of the Chinese Internet, where some 338 million users have long been used... ...full story at China Journal

from China Journal on Tue, Nov 03 2009

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