The fee for granting Vietnamese domain names has not yet been collected

The Ministry of Finance has just issued Official Letter No. 15597 / BTC-CST with the Ministry of Post and Telematics, temporarily not collecting fees, fees and fees for maintaining Vietnamese domain names.

This is the response of the Ministry of Finance to the proposal stated in Official Letter 2213 / BBCVT-KHTC of the Ministry of Post and Telematics: not yet collecting fees and fees for maintaining Vietnamese domain names together with a traditional domain name The provisions of Section I, the table of fee and charge rates for licensing and managing Vietnamese domain names and Internet addresses issued together with Decision No. 28/2005 / QD-BTC of May 13, 2005 of the Minister The financial.

According to the Ministry of Finance, the collection of fees for Vietnamese domain names will encourage the use of Internet domain names in Vietnamese, creating favorable conditions for Vietnamese information to be provided via the Internet. Previously, Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), which deployed and licensed Vietnamese domain names, has also developed and proposed domain name registration fee of about US $ 6 (equivalent to about VND 100,000).

VNNIC said, up to now, there are 13,000 .vn domain names registered and licensed, of which about 5,000 are Vietnamese domain names.

Thuy Nguyen