Another news piece highlighting the interesting but bizarre tale of Internet - China

The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) in China has announced sweeping reforms that will change the Internet domain system in China. The three top-level Chinese domain names under the “China” domain will now represent “Academics”, “Military”, and “Government”. All of these new domains will be accessible via Chinese characters.

Under the new system, besides “CN”, three Chinese TLD names “CN”, “COM” and “NET” are temporarily set. It means Internet users don’t have to surf the Web via the servers under the management of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) of the United States.

China has had rapid Internet growth over the past several years, with the country reportedly having upwards of 125 million Internet users. Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization responsible for assigning and distributing official internet domains, was transferred from the US to the United Nations. In the past, ICANN’s stance on non-Romanized characters has been hostile at best. China’s move to promote its own domain system with Chinese characters is precedence for other countries to embrace their own writing system for domain names — Arabic and Korean domain brokers are already hammering out the details for natural language domains.

Found this in news and thought it interesting.

 

I think China just like any person who's native language is not based on a Roman writing system just wants domains to be native to their language.

We want English domains don't we?
Domains in English have little value to nonEnglish speaks. In this I mean they have no SEO value, there is also not many simple domains left for people to buy. International Domains are the way to go.

I know I helped kickstart the market...

 

Interesting news. I wondered how long it would be before China decided to forge ahead with its own tld's.

 

How can I type these new Chinese domain extensions on my American keyboard?

 

There's a Chinese language pack on Windows & on Macs
You just have to install it.
On a mac it's already installed you just choose the option.
I don't know how to type Chinese cause I can't speak it but if you search the net you can find out how...