Internet to welcome the surge of “.China in Chinese characters”
08/07/2009 Source: People’s Daily
After more than a year of careful preparation, testing and trial operation, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) recently finished upgrading the domain name resolution system, including the central host node.
It means that at a global level, the time required to resolve Chinese and English domain names maintained by the center has been shortened from four hours to 15 minutes. Resolution speed has reached a world-leading level.
CNNIC officials said that on the one hand, the work of positioning “.??” domain names as top level domain names is proceeding smoothly and there will soon be a surge of Chinese domain name applications. On the other hand, the number of both China’s netizens and websites is increasing rapidly, and the scale of China’s 338 million netizens has sharply increased demand for domain name resolution and put forward higher requirements for China’s domain name resolution ability. The CNNIC’s timely upgrade of the domain name resolution system and their improvement of the operational capacity of the domain name infrastructure are preparations for the further expansion of China’s Internet capacity.
Experts explained that the domain name resolution service plays an extremely important role in the normal operation of the Internet. Various Internet applications such as surfing websites and sending/receiving e-mails all rely on domain name resolution service. The upgrade will further advance the service level of national domain name system, and improve the convenience of registration and application processes.
The rapid resolution speed of China’s domain name system will also significantly strengthen the international competitiveness of .CN and Chinese domain names, and further consolidate the position of .CN domain names as internationally mainstream domain names.
