VeriSign Now Offering Chinese Character Extensions
VeriSign Digital Brand Management Services is now offering the
following Chinese character extensions:
•
.中国 (.china)
• .公司 (.company)
• .网络 (.network)
Domain names cannot exceed 20 characters (each constituting element is considered as one character). For further details, please contact your VeriSign Digital Brand Management Services Account Team or Enterprise Customer Support.
We're discussing this issue in the ALAC, and I've asked the GNSO to place it on the agenda for an upcoming meeting.ADD: A reader asks: "Regarding the VeriSign announcement -- are you sure they're not just selling the CNNIC IDN names?" Fair point. Looks like that is possibly what is going on, given the similarity in the TLD offerings between what is on the Verisign page and what CNNic is offering. It's not clear from the web posting, however, whether Verisign is offering this service as a registrar or as a registry.
