On April 20, the Fourth Chinese Domain Name Innovation and Application Forum was successfully held in Beijing. The forum was jointly sponsored by CNNIC, the China Internet Network Information Centre, CONAC, the Domain Name Registration and Administration Centre for Governmental Affairs and Public Welfare Institutions of the Central Editorial Office, the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Beilongzhongwang (Beijing) Science and Technology Limited Liability Company, and was hosted by . URL Registry. Nearly 200 industry guests gathered to discuss the development of Chinese domain names.

In the speech of the forum, Chen Kai, deputy director of the Information and Communication Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), said that MIIT will be guided by Xi Jinping's Thought of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics in the New Era, conscientiously implement the decision-making and deployment of the CPC Central Committee and the State Council, develop, make use of, and govern the Internet, effectively do a good job in the management of Internet basic resource management, and encourage and support the development of domain names and applications. At present, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology is formulating the 14th Five-Year Plan for the Information and Communication Industry, which will carry out top-level planning for the management of basic Internet resources and promote the management of basic Internet resources to a new level.

Chen Kai, Deputy Director General, Information and Communication Administration Bureau, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology

According to Zeng Yu, Director of China Internet Network Information Centre (CNNIC), the 14th Five-Year Plan and the Outline of Vision 2035 propose to promote the construction of a strong network country and further enhance the influence of Chinese culture. Chinese domain name is the intersection of Chinese culture and the construction of network power, and it is the key to open the Internet in Chinese. The development of Chinese domain names is the mission and responsibility of every Internet basic resource practitioner.

Zeng Yu, Director of China Internet Network Information Centre

Regarding the activation and use of Chinese domain names, Liao Fangyu, Secretary of the Computer Network Information Centre of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that "the use and popularity of Chinese language is a great cornerstone of cultural confidence. Domain name is an important entrance and logo of the Internet world. Especially Chinese domain names, which are easy to say, easy to remember and easy to disseminate, are more suitable for Chinese people to use and better reflect the identity, language identity and cultural identity of Chinese people. It can be said that every input of Chinese domain names is a manifestation of Chinese culture."

 

Liao Fangyu, Secretary of Computer Network Information Centre, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Li Wenqiang, Director of Domain Name Registration and Management Centre for Government Affairs and Public Welfare Institutions of the Central Editorial Office, said in his speech that: up to now, the rate of listing the websites of party and government organs and institutions has exceeded 90%, and more than 100,000 party and government organs have registered the Chinese domain name of "government affairs", and the Office of the Internet Information Office of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has been assisted in cracking down on nearly 700 fake websites, thus maintaining the legitimacy, accuracy and authority of the online identity of the party and government organs and institutions. This has safeguarded the legitimacy, accuracy and authority of the online identity of party and government organs and institutions.

Li Wenqiang, Director of Domain Name Registration and Management Centre for Government Affairs and Public Welfare Institutions, Central Editorial Office

As the guiding unit of the forum, Internet Society of China has always been an active supporter and promoter of Chinese domain names. He Guili, Vice President and Deputy Secretary General of the Association, said, "The use of Chinese domain names is very convenient for Chinese users with Chinese as their mother tongue to access the Internet, which is an important initiative to narrow the digital divide. From an industrial point of view, the use of Chinese domain names and the popularisation of Chinese domain names can bring new market growth space to the development of our Internet industry, and the significance is positive and far-reaching."

He Guili, Vice President and Deputy Secretary General of Internet Society of China.

At the forum, the "I Spoke for Chinese Domain Names" activity was launched to encourage Chinese Internet users to use Chinese domain names to surf the Internet. The general manager of URL Registry Hui Xianglong said that the future will be around the country through a variety of enjoyable ways to popularise the knowledge of Chinese domain names to the majority of Internet users, recommend Chinese domain name cases, looking forward to China's every netizen, every organisation can use the Chinese domain name, so that the Chinese domain name as soon as possible to become the standard of China's Web site, to become the habit of use of Chinese netizens.

. General Manager of Website Registry Hui Xianglong

1、Mao Wei: Chinese domain names continue to lead the global multilingual domain name

Mao Wei, Director of ZDNS, National Engineering Research Centre for Domain Names, and Chairman of BeilongZhong.com, released the Global Domain Name Development Report at the forum.

Chairman of Beilongzhong.com (Beijing) Technology Co.

Director of ZDNS National Joint Local Engineering Research Centre
 

The report shows that by the end of 2020, the global domain name ownership reached 378 million, with 6.73 million new domain names added last year. According to Mao Wei, the continuous growth of global domain name registrations shows that the epidemic had little impact on the domain name industry last year, and the epidemic also stimulated the growth of the network economy and the demand for domain name registrations to a certain extent.

Chinese users prefer to register ccTLDs and new gTLDs. According to the report, China's domain name holdings reached 46.06 million, of which ccTLDs, at 20.67 million, accounted for the highest proportion, nearly half of China's domain name market; China's new gTLDs accounted for 23.6 per cent of the total, while the global new gTLDs accounted for only 8.54 per cent.

Among global multilingual domain names, Chinese domain names continued to take the lead. Among them, . URL is the largest TLD in the global multilingual domain name registry, accounting for 33.3% of the global multilingual domain name registry. The Chinese domain name . URL, 86% of the registered users are corporate users, indicating that the application of domain names continues to improve. In terms of domain name renewal rates, Chinese domain names are higher than traditional gTLDs. This shows the recognition of Chinese domain names by Chinese users, especially by Chinese enterprises.

Of course, the report also shows that China's enterprise domain name resolution security needs to be improved. Through the ZDNS domain name management cloud platform, according to 9 dimensions and 102 detailed monitoring and analysis found that the enterprise domain name security score is generally low, there are security risks, it is recommended to use cloud resolution, heterogeneous resolution platform, upgrade the domain name system software and other technical means to improve the overall security of domain name resolution services.

The full report can be accessed at the Chinese domain name: "Domain Name Report. URL".
 

2. ICANN: China is a Leader in Making Multilingual Internet a Reality

The Chinese Domain Name Innovation and Application Forum has been held for four consecutive years. The forum has always focused on discussing and promoting the popularity and application of Chinese domain names. Chinese domain name is a domain name in Chinese, such as "Chinese. URL", similar to .com/.cn, is the door number of Chinese enterprises online. In reality, Chinese domain names have already been enabled by the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Bank of China and many other enterprises. If you type "CAS. URL" in the address bar of your browser, you will be able to reach the official website directly.

Göran Marby, President of ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, explained the value and significance of multilingual domain names through a video. "The wonder of the Internet is that it is global and connects people around the world. But the real power of the Internet is how we use it to connect locally. People should be able to use their own language, their own words, their own keyboards and their own stories online. We have the opportunity and the responsibility to make the Internet more easily accessible to more people around the world. Achieving universal adoption of multilingual domain names is the key to getting the next billion users online."

Ma Yueran gave positive recognition to the efforts made by the Chinese community in promoting the application of Chinese domain names. He said, "Your achievements over the past few years have been crucial to the development of the multilingual Internet. China is clearly a leader in making the multilingual Internet a reality."

 

Ma Yueran, President of ICANN, the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.

 

3、Internet Society of China: Released a test report on the applicability of Chinese domain names in browsers

At the forum, Pei Wei, Deputy Secretary General of Internet Society of China, released the "Browser Chinese Domain Name Universal Applicability Test Report". The evaluation involves Chrome, Edge, IE11, 360 Browser, QQ Browser, Firefox, Safari, Sogou Browser and other mainstream browsers in China. The report shows that: in China, the browser support for Chinese domain names has gradually improved in recent years, and application vendors have deepened their understanding of the importance of Chinese domain names; on the basis of the normal resolution of Chinese domain names, the address bar display of browsers and other general applicability is still to be further improved; there is still a certain gap between the support for Chinese domain names in domestic browsers compared with that in foreign vendors; there is also a gap between the support for Chinese domain names in mobile browsers compared with desktop browsers. The degree of support for Chinese domain names in mobile browsers is still a gap compared to desktop browsers.

Pei Wei, Deputy Secretary General of Internet Society of China

Regarding the achievements of the Chinese community and the Internet Society of China, Sarmad Hussain, Senior Director of ICANN's Multilingual Domain Names Programme, said that the Chinese Internet Society of China has made a lot of progress in the development of Chinese domain names. Sarmad Hussain, Senior Director of ICANN's Multilingual Domain Names Programme, expressed his gratitude through a video and said, "We look forward to working with the Chinese community and the industry to further promote the use of Chinese domain names and email addresses in the future. Working with a community-led Universal Access Steering Group at ICANN, the Internet Society of China and the Universal Access (UA) Ambassadors are planning a number of activities. These include: researching the acceptance of Chinese domain names on local websites; conducting UA training for software developers and email administrators; and continuing outreach to the technology industry to support the universal acceptance of Chinese domain names and Chinese email."

Sarmad Hussain, Senior Director of ICANN's Multilingual Domain Name Programme. Sarmad Hussain

Pei Wei said that this report draws on ICANN evaluation standards and specifications to evaluate a sample of the most important scenario applications for domain name use - web browsers. In the next step, the Association's Chinese Domain Name Promotion Working Group will conduct sample tests for more Chinese domain name application scenarios, such as search engines, mailboxes, input methods, and timely communication tools.

4、Qian Hualin: Lifetime Achievement Award of Chinese Domain Name Industry

The forum awarded Qian Hualin, a researcher at the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the "Lifetime Achievement Award for Chinese Domain Name Industry" to thank him for his contribution to the research and promotion of Chinese domain names. Qian Hualin, one of the important pioneers of the Internet in China, has made outstanding contributions to the realisation of China's full-featured connection to the international Internet and the establishment of China's Internet domain name address system, and led the establishment of the Chinese Domain Name Co-ordination Consortium (CDNC) in 2000 to co-ordinate scientific research efforts from four places across the Taiwan Straits and carry out technological and policy research in the field of Chinese domain names. In the same year, he promoted the establishment of the Joint Engineering Team (JET) for multilingual domain names, coordinating the formulation of technical standards and management specifications for Chinese domain names in China, Japan and South Korea. 2003, he was elected as a member of the Board of Directors of ICANN, and promoted the research and formulation of policies for the international management of multilingual domain names. 2004, he acted as one of the authors to draft and formulate the "Standard for Registration of Multilingual Domain Names in China, Japan, and South Korea", which was released by the Internet International Standards Organisation (IETF) as In 2014, he was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame as an "Internet Innovator/Reformer", and in 2015, he was received by the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and President Xi Jinping at the World Internet Conference in Wuzhen. Fellow Qian Hualin has coordinated the strength of the Chinese community for many years, contributing Chinese power to the technological development and universal application of the international Internet.

Qian Hualin, Researcher, Chinese Academy of Sciences

The forum awarded Pei Wei, Deputy Secretary General of Internet Society of China (ISOC) and Head of Chinese Domain Name Promotion Working Group, the "2020 Outstanding Contribution Award for Chinese Domain Name Industry". Pei Wei, former Director of the Market Management Division of the former Telecommunications Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and Director of the Internet Division of the Information and Communications Administration Bureau, has been committed to the management of the Internet industry for many years, and has made a positive contribution to the healthy and orderly development of the Internet domain name industry, especially to the promotion of the technology of Chinese domain names and their universal application. Since Ms. Pei Wei became the head of the Chinese Domain Name Promotion Working Group in early 2020, the Working Group has united and organised relevant enterprises and institutions as well as experts and scholars in the field of Internet domain names in China to actively carry out research and visits, policy communication, industry self-regulation, international cooperation, training and publicity, etc., and to play the role of a bridge between the government, the industry and the netizens, to raise the level of recognition of Chinese domain names in the whole society, to vigorously promote the promotion of the technology of Chinese domain names, and to continue to promote the support for Chinese domain names by the vendors of emails, browsers, search engines and instant messaging applications. The support of Chinese domain names by email, browser, search engine, instant messaging and other application vendors has achieved positive results and been recognised by the industry at home and abroad.
 

5. Forum Launches "I Spoke for Chinese Domain Names" Activity

The popularity and application of Chinese domain names cannot be separated from the use of the majority of Chinese Internet users. In view of the current recognition of Chinese domain names, the use of the reality of the situation is not high, the forum enabled the "I speak for the Chinese domain name" activities to encourage more enterprises and institutions and netizens are willing to speak for the Chinese domain name, found around the Chinese domain name, to the side of the friends recommended the use of Chinese domain names.

It is worth noting that the fourth Chinese domain name innovation and application forum 2021 also held a "Chengdu Universiade and the North Dragon in the network (Beijing) Science and Technology Limited Liability Company reached a Chinese domain name sponsorship" signing ceremony, Chengdu Universiade announced that it will soon enable the corresponding ". URL" Chinese domain name. This is the first world-class event in the world to use a multilingual domain name as its official domain name.

The Forum also awarded plaques of "Excellent Application Units" to enterprises that have already activated their Chinese domain names. The Chinese domain names enabled by the awarded Outstanding Applicators include: "ICBC. Website", "Beijing Agricultural and Commercial Bank of China. Website", "Taikang Online. Website", "Blue Sky Rescue. China", "BBMG. Website", "Mou Flavour . Website", "Sports Floor . Website", "Chupai.Website", etc.

As the final finale at the forum - a Chinese domain name comedy performance by stand-up comedian Qingping Fang - the atmosphere of the forum was brought to a climax.