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Price of domain names ending in .cn comes down

China's top Internet address registration agency has slashed the price of domain names ending with .cn to win users from the ".com" service, whose server is overseas. The China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, said the promotion is for the sake of national information security and to increase Internet use in the world's second-largest Web market. "Wider use of the .cn service will improve our Internet independency and it's safer for Chinese Website operators," said government-backed CNNIC in a statement yesterday. China had 4.1 million domain names by the end of 2006. Nearly half of them ended with .com that depend on servers in the United States, while 44 percent were using the .cn service. The rest were mostly .net and .org sites, according to CNNIC's annual report. The overseas server-backed .com service was disrupted in the last week of December when earthquakes off southern Taiwan knocked out undersea cables. Trackback(0) TrackBack URI for this entry Comments (0) Subscribe to this comment's feed Show/Hide comments Write comment Show/Hide comment form Name Email Website Title Comment Write the displayed characters Add Comment Copyright 2007. All Rights Reserved.

 

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