China Internet Network Information Center

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China Internet Network Information Center

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legal form nonprofit organization
founding June 1997
Seat Beijing
management Erwei Shi (Chairman)
Branch Internet and domains
Website www.cnnic.cn

The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC for short) is a non-profit organization that was founded in June 1997 as the registry for the country-specific top-level domain .cn .

history

In February 2003, the award criteria were liberalized so that domains could since then be registered directly on the second level, whereas previously this was only possible below a second-level domain such as .com.cn or .org.cn . In December of the previous year, the written registration in paper form was converted to an electronic procedure in order to accelerate the connection. In the period that followed, the number of registered .cn domains rose to over 700,000 addresses, with reports of a tightening of censorship increasing. For example, it is forbidden to register domains with the intention of harming the government with the information offered under them or, for example, to provide pornographic content.

meaning

The top-level domain .cn has recorded double-digit growth rates for years. By lowering the fees, the number of registered .cn domains rose by 400 percent in 2006 to 2007. In 2008 there were a total of 14 million .cn domains, so .cn was the most popular country ending before .de and .uk . In the following years, however, due to several changes in the award criteria, the spread fell rapidly, to around four million domains in September 2012. Among other things, it was not possible to obtain domains from foreign registrars from 2009 to 2012. Private individuals were also prohibited from owning .cn domains. Recently, the number of registrations has stabilized again, in 2012 there were again more .cn than .eu domains.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Introduction. (No longer available online.) China Internet Network Information Center, archived from the original on Nov. 24, 2013 ; accessed on September 13, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www1.cnnic.cn
  2. ↑ Florian Huber: China-Domains (.cn) - on the market from March 17, 2003. In: domain-right. February 13, 2003, accessed on September 15, 2013 : “On March 17, the registration of .cn domains will start worldwide on the second level under the new liberalized allocation conditions. Real-time registration of .cn domains has been possible worldwide under the new allocation conditions since December. "
  3. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .cn - China tightened network censorship. In: domain-right. September 25, 2005, accessed on September 15, 2013 : “Since the liberalization in spring 2003, the registration numbers of China domains have risen sharply to well over 700,000. (...) However, there are clear content-related restrictions: accordingly, for example, no content may be offered under .cn that is directed against the Chinese government, harms national interests, causes public disruption or serves pornographic purposes. "
  4. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Industry Brief - 138 million domains worldwide. In: domain-right. September 13, 2007, accessed on September 15, 2013 : “.cn stood out, thanks to an aggressive pricing strategy by the registry CNNIC with registration fees of around ten cents per domain in the first year, with growth of almost unbelievable 402 percent year-on-year catapulted upwards, so that .cn is now ranked as the third largest country code after .de and .uk. "
  5. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: .cn - Is China's national broadcast planning a comeback? In: domain-right. September 13, 2012, accessed on September 15, 2013 : “At its peak, over 14 million .cn domains were assigned. (...) Within a few months, the registration numbers then plummeted to a good 3.3 million. The CNNIC registry currently reports around four million registered .cn domains. "
  6. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: TLDs - News from .cn, .ru and .info. In: domain-right. January 20, 2010, accessed on September 20, 2013 : “The Chinese domain administration China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) drastically restricts the allocation of domains with the country code .cn: since January 6, 2010, registration via foreign Domain registrars no longer possible. "
  7. ^ Daniel Dingeldey: People can register .cn again. In: domain-right. May 30, 2012, accessed on September 20, 2013 : “Since Tuesday, the Chinese domain administration CNNIC has been accepting domain registrations from individuals for .cn domains and their internationalized counterparts. CNNIC ended the registration of domains by natural persons in December 2009. "
  8. ↑ Florian Hitzelberger: Domain statistics - .cn overtakes .eu. In: domain-right. September 5, 2012, accessed on September 16, 2013 : “The Chinese extension .cn, which fell from around 14 million domain registrations to around 3.3 million years ago, is currently delivering steep registration numbers and has now overtaken the European extension. eu. "

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