China will destroy ICANN's monopoly

China may have planned to destroy the monopoly of the International Domain Name Management Organization (ICANN) and the International Domain Name System after developing some versions of the most popular domain names.

China said it is in the process of developing a new domain system based on Chinese characters.

The country has successfully developed the Chinese version of the three most popular domain names, ".cn", ".com" and ".net". These domain names were released by the Ministry of Information Industry of China yesterday.

The success of China in developing domain names in Chinese has raised doubts about whether the country will be the center of breaking the monopoly of ICANN and shattering the idea of ​​unifying the system. Global DNS domain name server.

Not only that, it also raises concerns about China's tight control of the Internet and perhaps a wall of the World Wide Web.

" This means that Internet users will not have to surf through the servers managed by ICANN, in other words, the US administration ," wrote China's Online People.

ICANN declined to comment on this plan of China, although details of the plan were disclosed by the Chinese Information Industry Ministry.

" We want to clarify the current situation. It is not yet clear whether China has created the top domain names or just the second level domain names because the report is still unclear. The current situation is not yet obviously , "said ICANN.

Experts are concerned that China has the ability to create its own domain name management on its own servers, which could cause a split in the Internet.

" Small splitting is not only ICANN's concern but also ours ," said Geir Rasmussen, CEO of Global Name Registry - a global domain name management organization that manages the .name domain name.

" Users may lose trust in the system if there are multiple versions of the same domain. If someone uses a .name domain name at another DNS server, you - the person use - is it possible to know exactly what Internet access you are accessing? This is like a phone number that points to two different people , "Rasmussen said.

Last year, some countries voiced opposition to ICANN's dominance over Internet root domain names because ICANN is still under the control of the US government.

The European Union and a number of other countries require the US government to share its responsibility in managing DNS, including deciding to add or remove premium domains, to the United Nations. The Bush administration rejected this request.

" There is a conflict with ICANN about who will manage the Internet. We are not surprised if the Internet is broken down because some parts of the world don't really feel they are involved in the competition. accept this , "said Rasmussen.

HVD - (ZDNet / Technewsworld)