2009: Will there be a new domain name

Internet users will soon have the opportunity to use brand new domain names such as .love, .paris or .bank if ICANN approves one of the most likely decisions to "shock the world wide web" in the calendar. history.

As expected, ICANN will organize annual meetings in Paris today and vote for new domain names this week.

"In addition to .com, .net or .org, since the beginning of 2009, more than 1.3 billion Internet users worldwide will be able to register and own domain names ending with very popular keywords. It could be .love, .hate or .city . ", ICANN President Paul Twomey said.

Currently, there are quite a few domain names serving "narrow markets" such as ".eu", ".travel" . However, the hot ".sex" domain name has not been greened by ICANN.

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In an independent announcement, VeriSign said the number of Internet addresses ending in China 's ".cn" has surpassed the ".net" domain name , although ".net" is a domain name that carries global.

Specifically, there were 11.8 million new websites registered with ".cn" in the first quarter of 2008, while this figure of ".net" was only 11.6 million.

Grow dizzy

According to VeriSign's research, the number of new ".cn" websites has increased by 23% compared to the fourth quarter of 2007 and 3 times higher than the same period in 2007.

"It's all about the rapid development of the Internet market in China - the most populous country in the world."

However, VeriSign experts said that ".cn" is difficult to bring down ".com" - the most popular domain name today - in a short future.

With 76.5 million new websites registered in the first three months of the year, ".com" continues to be the dominant ruler.

Both ".com" and ".net" are global domain names, serving all individuals, organizations or businesses on the basis of "Who registers first, enjoy first".

In addition to ".cn", some other national domain names also witnessed rapid growth of ".pl" of Poland, Spain's ".es" , ".ru" and ".fr" of France.

Trong Cam (Summary of AFP, VNUnet)