.CN: International success for Key-Systems |
At the forth international meeting for .CN registrars in Sanya, China,
German based Key-Systems was awarded as top European .CN registrar 2006.
CNNIC, the official registry for .CN domains awarded the prize to the domain
registrar and hoster already for the third time.
Timo Reitnauer, director business development, was proud to receive the
award: "Key-Systems has realized the enormous potential and growth
opportunities in the Chinese market.. This prize is motivating us, to
further grow our engagement in Asia." Reitnauer announced an intensive and
close cooperation with the Chinese registry. In spring, Key-Systems is
planning to present results to push the rising international sales figures
for .CN.
.CN is currrently one of the biggest ccTLD worldwide and still growing fast.
The China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) was founded on June 3,
1997 as a non-profit administrative and service providing organization.
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Major Price Drop for .CN Domains |
Starting Monday, 19 March, the German domain registrar domaindiscount24.com offers new one year .CN domain registrations at a price of only 3.28 Euro (3.90 Euro inkl. VAT). This special promotion ends April 30.
domaindiscount24.com is part of the global reseller network of Key-Systems, recently awarded as top European .CN registrar 2006.
Increased marketing activities are the first step in a broad cooperation between Key-Systems and CNNIC, the Chinese registry.This cooperation will result in further .CN specials after the current promotion periode.
In 2006 .CN was not only the fastest growing ccTLD but with over 1.8 million registrations it is now ranked as the 4th largest ccTLD in the world.
As the number of Internet users within China continues to grow, it is becoming more important for companies and existing registrants in other TLDs to protect their trademarks, products or service names in the .CN TLD.
With the current promotion, domaindiscount24 supports this development. ASCII-code domains are part of the promotion, also containing third level domains like COM.CN, NET.CN, ORG.CN and all 34 regional .CN extensions (BJ.CN, SH.CN, ZH.CN etc.)
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BlogCN ProvidesBook Publishing Service For Chinese Bloggers |
May 22, 2006 - Chinese blog site BlogCN and digital printing franchiser Founderprod have together launched a digital printing service based on Internet blog content.
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CNNIC Official Takes Email Management Position |
CNNIC Official Takes Email Management Position read more...
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Yahoo! China Decides To Be A Portal, Again |
After last year discarding its cluttered portal homepage for a more streamlined interface that only emphasized its search engine, Yahoo!...read more
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China's Search Engine Industry Faces Slowdown |
Market research firm Analysys International is expecting a sharp slowdown in the growth of China's search engine market in the coming 18 months, due to increasing dissatisfaction from small and midsize enterprise advertisers of search engines. ...read more
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China Adds New Top-Level Domain Names |
China Adds New Top-Level Domain Names February 28, 2006 - In order to better organize Internet domain names, there are now three top-level Chinese domain names under the .CN country indicator. Click for more
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Chinese Email Service Providers Will Form Unified Platform To Manage Emails |
March 2, 2006 - Headed by the Internet Society of China (ISC), China's email service providers including Sina.com, Netease.com, Tom Online and 263.net are preparing to build a unified email management platform and to have in-depth cooperation with international anti-spam organizations to better manage emails and counter junk mails.
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Replacement of Google with Alternative Search Systems in China
Documentation and Screen Shots |
The authors are studying Internet filtering in countries worldwide, and current investigations focus on restrictions on web access in China. Using a web-based system to test web filtering in China, the authors previously determined and confirmed that Google was inaccessible from at least one testing location in China ...The full article can be viewed here
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China's Internet Users Increase To 111 Million |
January 18, 2006 - Statistics from the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) show that the number of Internet users rose to 111 million at the end of 2005, an increase of 17 million from a year ago. read more...
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Key-Systems wins an award in China. |
German registrar counts to the most successful international registrars for .CN Domains
The Key-Systems GmbH has since 2001 specialized on the registration of Internet-Addresses beneath international Top-Level-Domains, such as the popular .COM, .INFO, .DE or one of the newly introduced Top-Level-Domains .EU.
Key-Systems never expected to be extremely successful in the distribution of .CN Domains and that they would belong to the top 5 most successful international registrars worldwide.
Key-Systems was invited to attend the Third Annual CNNIC Registrar Conference in Yangshuo, Guilin China from January 10th through 13th 2006 see pictures. This is where Robert Birkner, Director of Sales and International Business of Key-Systems was handed the award "Top Producer - .CN International Registrar 2005" for the second time in a row.
The Third Annual CNNIC Rgeistrar meetings had more than 200 participants from local, as well as international registrars. The most important announcement during the conference was, that .CN had passed the 1 million domain registration mark making it to the fifth largest ccTLD (country-code Top-Level-Domains) worldwide, after .DE, .UK, .NL and .IT.
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China's .CN Domain Name Registrations Break 1 Million |
January 12, 2006 - According to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), China's .cn domain name registration has reached 1.09 million, an increase of 150% compared with the same period last year. read more...
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Hackers trying to access computers in Japan every 6 1/2 minutes |
OSAKA -- Hackers are trying to break into computers in Japan an average of once every 6 1/2 minutes, a survey by Internet service firm Digital Effect Network Co. has found.
The full report can be viewed under:
http://mdn.mainichi-msn.co.jp/national/news/20051231p2a00m0na002000c.html
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Sina.com Launches Local Search |
December 9, 2005 - Sina.com (SINA) has launched its iAsk local search engine in Chongqing read more...
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China Publishes First Internet Addiction Report |
The China Youth Net Association has released its first Internet addiction report read more...
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CNN: Chinese whispers? |
China: the country of the Great Wall, the biggest army in the world and censorship of the internet. Or is it? Meet the bloggers who are claiming they're free to say what they like....
The full report can be viewed here...
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Successful launch of .TW Second-Level-Domains |
Successful launch of .TW Second-Level-Domains
Punctually on November 1st 2005, the official registry for the country code Top-Level-Domain of Taiwan launched .TW Second-Level-Domains.
Key-Systems was able to achieve an overall success rate of sensational 85% of all pre-registrations submitted to the registry, securing many valueable domains for our customers.
.TW Domains, such a yourname.tw, can be registered in real-time through domaindiscount24.com. The annual registration fee is 48,28 Euro (56,00 Euro incl. VAT.)
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Dot-org domain growing fastest in India |
The sales of the ".org" domain -- the Internet address for most nonprofit organisations -- are growing faster in India than any other major nation, a top manager for the domain said Monday...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.rediff.com/money/2005/oct/04net.htm
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Internet becoming part of life for Chinese |
BEIJING, Oct. 7 (Xinhuanet) -- Lu Li, a 23-year-old working with aforeign firm in East China's Shanghai, has found surfing online indispensable in her daily life since she first accessed to the Internet seven years ago....read more
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CIOL.com: India gets mobile-to-mobile payment option |
Airtel, ICICI Bank and VISA have joined hands to launch mChq, the first mobile-to-mobile payment option in the country, which enables Airtel customers and ICIC Bank Visa cardholders to pay for their purchases using Airtel mobile phones...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.ciol.com/content/news/2005/105091911.asp
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The Standard: Google sale may fund China push |
Google, the most-used Internet search engine, may expand its business in China and purchase faster computers to support new services after the company raised US$4.18 billion (HK$32.6 billion) in a stock sale...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.asp?we_cat=2&art_id=1454&sid=4579248&con_type=1&d_str=20050916
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Seattle Times: Microsoft still trying to find its footing in China |
Last week, Microsoft lost an opportunity to improve its relations with the Chinese government after Chinese President Hu Jintao's trip to the U.S. was postponed. Instead, the company found itself in court, hearing an executive who defected to its biggest rival disparage Microsoft's record in China...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2002488403_gateschina12.html
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AsiaMedia: Youth want better TV reporting |
A poll of Internet users finds respondents were unhappy with the quality of TV news, while President Chen warns that bad reporting threatens freedom of speech
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.asiamedia.ucla.edu/article-eastasia.asp?parentid=29613
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CIOL.com: What Indians search on the net |
BANGALORE: The recent JuxtConsult study on preferred websites of netizens reveals that leading portals dominate the Indian online space...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.ciol.com/content/search/showarticle1.asp?artid=74851
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Asahi.com: TV broadcasters heading online for future growth |
TV networks, growing increasingly nervous as Internet companies leave them in the dust in video-over-the-Web services, are preparing to close the gap by entering the medium in earnest.
With transmission speeds up to snuff thanks to fiber-optic connections, broadcasters are moving to offer their vast archives online...
The full report can be viewed under:
http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200509020122.html
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BBC News: Women lead rural India's internet rush |
Women lead rural India's internet rush
The internet is beginning to have a revolutionary effect on the 700 million people who live in villages in India - and the charge is being led by women....
The full report can be viewed under:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3871529.stm
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China's Filters Strong |
The Chinese government has become increasingly sophisticated at controlling the internet, taking a multilayered approach that contributes to precision in blocking political dissent, a report released Thursday finds. ...
The full report can be viewed under: http://www.wired.com/news/privacy/0,1848,67221,00.html?tw=wn_story_mailer
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USA Today: China takes unique steps to combat Web addiction |
BEIJING — The 12 teenagers and young adults, some in ripped jeans and baggy T-shirts, sit in a circle, chewing gum and fidgeting as they shyly introduce themselves. "I'm 12 years old," one boy announces with a smile. "I love playing computer games. That's it." ...
The full report can be viewed under: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-07-01-china-web-addiction_x.htm?POE=click-refer
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New Marketing Info on .CN now available! |
CNNIC just recently announced the 15th Statistical Survey report on the Internet Development of China.
We have summarized the most important information from this survey and published the findings on our website, under Market-Info.
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.TW starts Nov. 1st 2005! |
On June 28th 2005, TWNIC Domain Name Committee approved the domain name registration policy for .TW in the Second -Level, meaning that as of November 1st 2005 (planned date at this point in time), you will be able to register your desired domain beneath .TW directly, e.g. yourdomain.tw.
.TW is the official country code Top-Level-Domain of Taiwan. At this point in time you can only register com.TW (for companies), org.TW (for organisations), idv.TW (for individuals), game.tw (gaming industry), club.tw (for ge neral clubs) and ebiz.tw (e-businesses) Domains. Fur thermore you can register .TW IDNs beneath the Second-Level with chinese characters according to the IETF Standards.
You can already place your pre-registration at
http://www.domaindiscount24.net/?page=domains_prereg.
On November 1st 2005 (presumably) all applications received will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis. As things are now, registrations directly beneath .TW (www. example.tw) will be charged 48,28 Euro (56,00 Euro incl. VAT) per year.
Third-Level .TW Domain registrations, beneath com.tw, org.tw, idv.tw, game.tw, club.tw and/or ebiz.tw can be registered immediately and cost 39,90 Euro (46,28 Euro incl. VAT).
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The demand for .IN Domains is still unbroken |
Germany is still the # 1 country infront of .U.S. for .IN Domain Registrations outside of India, resulting in a total market share of approx. 10.8%.
.IN the official ccTLD of India recently liberalized their registration policies allowing anybody worldwide to register .IN (co.in, org.in, net.in, firm.in, gen.in and ind.in) Domains. The relaunch of .IN with the new policies commenced in January with a 21 day Sunrise-Period, whereas interested parties could register their trademarks. During this so-called Sunrise Period more than 3.400 Domains were registered successfully.
The first domain registered in Germany during the Sunrise Period was "Bertelsmann.in" and the first domain registered during the "Landrush" (live registration) period on February 16th 2005 was "furniture.in".
More than 52% of all .IN domains registered so far, were during the first 24 hours of the registry opening their gateway to the public on February 16th 2005. Since then (as of March 13th 2005) more than 9.500 .IN domains were registered by German registrants. Afilias Inc,. the registry service provider for .IN, has counted individual registrants from more than 108 countries worldwide.
Even with the successful launch of .IN and the fact that 52% of all domains registered so far were executed on the first day, the demand for .IN Domains still remains unbroken.
Source: Afilias Limited
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.IN registrations are now LIVE |
Congratulations INRegistry and Afilias!
Key-Systems received the accreditation for .IN exactly one day before the registry went "live". Punctually on February 16th 2005 early in the morning .IN went "live", meaning .IN Domains (.IN, co.IN, net.IN, org.IN, firm.IN, gen.IN and ind.IN) can now be registered immediately in real-time.
Key-Systems submitted all of thier collected pre-registrations and was able to achieve an overall success rate of more than 60%.
Afilias Inc. the official registry of .INFO and NIXI (National Internet eXchange of India) have been working closely together over the last weeks to allow these "live" registrations.
Altogether this has been a great success fo the country-code Top-Level-Domain .IN and will boost India to be one of the most popular ccTLDs worldwide.
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15th Statistical Survey Report on the Chinese Internet Development |
Some 94 million Chinese on the mainland became Internet users by the end of last year, unveiled from the "15th Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China" by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) on Jan, 2005 in Beijing, presenting a year-on-year growth of 18.2%. Among them, the number of broadband users was 42.80 million. In the mean time, the number of computer hosts in China has raised to 41.60 million, an increase of 14.6% over the past 6 months.
The numbers of domain names and websites registered under .CN were 432077 and 668900, increasing by 50000 and 43000 respectively, compared with the figures of 6 months ago. The bandwidth of international connection has reached 74429M; the total number of IPv4 addresses allocated to China has been 59945728, presenting a half-year growth of 38 percent and 21 percent respectively.
More Facts:
The total number of the Internet users in Hong Kong SAR has reached 3.30 million
There have been 25.40 million more broadband users in 2004, an increase of 146% over 2003
Internet accessing time, Internet users were on the Internet averagely 13.2 hours or 4.1 days per week, an increase of 0.9 hour over the past 6 months.
The satisfactory degrees of the users for charged email and free email are 32.6% and 71.9% respectively.
The penetration rate of the household accessing Internet has raised to 59%
The complete Survey can be found here
SOURCE: www.cnnic.com.cn
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Key-Systems at the 2005 Annual CNNIC Registrars Conference in Kunming, China |
The annual CNNIC Registrars Conference took place this year in Kunming, China between January 26th and 28th 2005.
Kunming is a city located towards the South-West of Beijing (approx. 3 hours flight). After the successful meeting in Hainan last year, Key-systems decidied to once again participate in this years annual meeting. The goal was to further inform ourselves on the future developments at CNNIC and NeuLevel. Furthermore it was important for Key-Systems to be present especially since CN IDNs were just successfully launced on January 17th 2005.
Participants of the meeting were:
- approx. 35 domestic registrars
- representative from NeuLevel the exclusive distribution partner of CNNIC
- representative of Enom (USA), a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
- representative from Key-Systems (Germany), a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
- representative of Gabia (Korea), a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
- representative of GMO (Japan), a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
CNNIC introduced many news ideas regarding the development and marekting of .CN locally and globally.
CNNIC also just recently published the "15th statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China". This can viewed under:
www.cnnic.com.cn/html/Dir/2005/01/21/2755.htm
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IN - India goes "live" on February 16th 2005 |
As many of you may have heard .IN launched new policies liberalizing .IN registrations in the fourth quarter of 2004.
On December 20th 2004 Afilias announced, that they had been selected to provide the registry services for .IN
http://afilias.info/news/press_releases/pr_articles/2004-12-20-01.
Momentarily .IN is in the process of a Sunrise period for "Indian" trademark holders. This Sunrise Period will end on January 21st 2005.
We have decided not to participate in the Sunrise Period. Momentarily you can only register Sunrise Domains through the four accredited registrars of India.
IN will launch to the public presummably on February 16th 2005. As of today we will be accepting pre-registrations for .IN Domains directly through the WebInterface.
The following information is important:
- Date "planned" for launch is February 16th 2005.
- Following Top-Level-Domains will become available for anybody to register:
- .in
- co.in
- net.in
- org.in
- firm.in
- gen.in (general)
- ind.in (individuals)
Policies:
- Term: domain names may be registered for a minimum of one (1) year, and a maximum of five (5) years.
- Autorenewal:Domains automatically renew at the end of their term (the expiration date).
- .IN domain names may be between 3 and 63 characters in length.
- Only letters, digits, and hyphens will be accepted in a domain name. Names cannot begin or end with hyphens.
- Contact information: Registrants must provide true, accurate contact information. The following contact types are required: Registrant, Administrative, Technical, Billing. As per standing policy, the contact data will displayed in the .IN WHOIS, except for the Billing contact
data, which is not displayed.
- Nameservers: to register a .IN domain, the registrant does not need to provide nameservers. In order to appear in the zone file and resolve on the Internet, at least one (1) valid nameserver must be associated with the domain name. The use of at least two valid nameservers is highly recommended.
- Internationalized domain names (IDNs): The registry plans to accept IDN registrations in the future, including IDN registrations in Hindi, Tamil, and other Indian languages. Until further announcements, no applications for domain names in internationalized script (including diacritical marks) shall be accepted. Domains with hyphens in the third
and fourth positions will be rejected.
- The registry has the authority to deny or suspend a registration if it conflicts with the sovereign national interest or public order.
A list of blocked domains, which cannot be registered exists and can be viewed under
www.inregistry.in/policies/IN_Reserved_Names.pdf
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.CN IDNs will become available as of January 17th 2005 |
Internationalized domain names (IDNs) represent the next step in the evolution of the Web. They enable domain names to be spelled with non-English, non-ASCII character sets, and they hold unlimited possibilities for companies with global aspirations.
Therefore CNNIC (the official registry for .CN Domains) and NeuLevel Inc. will officially launch .CN IDNs on January 17th 2005. IDNs will only be launched for chinese characters and beneath .CN directly. You will NOT be able to register IDNs beneath com.CN, net.CN or org.CN.
China and the Asia-Pacific in general have been the fastest growing markets in the world and are expected to continue to experience explosive growth in the years to come. Chinese is also one of the most spoken languages in the world because of its large population. If your customers seek to do business online in China (and reach over 56 million Chinese-speaking consumers in the Asia-Pacific region's most
dynamic marketplace), urge them to register and use IDNs in the .CN domain!
Key-Systems is already accepting Pre-Registrations of .CN IDNs. To learn more adn pre-register your .CN IDNs today, please proceed to domaindiscount24.com.
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Launching of SECOND-LEVEL .SG Domain names |
On August 16th 2004 SGNIC, the official registry of the country-code Top-Level-Domain (ccTLD) .SG of Singapore announced, that they will open up the second-level of .sg domain names (in the form of Name.SG) for registration with effect from 15 Sep 2004. Unlike the third level (Name.com.SG), the second-level will not specify the category of applicants that can register the .sg names.
Applicants, who are overseas-based, will need to have a local presence. This service is provided by Key-Systems GmbH d/b/a domaindiscount24.com automatically when registering a .SG domain, so therefore the domain is bascially unrestricted.
*Sunrise Period (Sept. 15th 2004 to Nov. 1st 2004): During this period, SGNIC will accept applications through its accredited registrars for the 2nd level names from new applicants, as well as existing registrants of 3rd level names. SGNIC will accord priority to groups of applicants in the following order: registered trademark holders; unregistered well-known mark holders; government departments/agencies; existing 3rd level registrants; and new applicants. For this purpose, applicants are required to fill in a Declaration Form to declare their status and to send it to their appointed registrars when making the applications. To do so, please follow these *instructions*. Applicants, who wish to take advantage of having higher priority of being an existing 3rd level name registrant, are advised to register their 3rd level domain names by 6 Sep 2004. During the Sunrise Period, we will charge 79 Euro (91,64 Euro incl. VAT) for each .SG domain registration per year.
*.SG goes "live" on January 3rd 2005: As of January 3rd 2005, applications received will be processed on a first-come-first-served basis. Any name that is not taken up during the 'Sunrise Period' will be made available to the public for registration from this date onwards. .SG domain registrations will then be charged 59 Euro (68,44 Euro incl. VAT) per year.
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Relaunch of Domains.cn |
Last year on June 20th 2003 we officially launched the Website www.Domains.cn, as Key-Systems had wanted to inform our customers about the Chinese Domain Market. Since then the website has been a great success and the feedback we had received has been amazing.
As you may have noticed, we have added three further Asian country-code-Top-Level-Domains, .JP (Japan), .TW (Taiwan - com.TW, org.TW and idv.TW) and just recently com.SG (Singapore) and therefore we have modified the Domain to "AsianDomains.CN, - AsianDomains.JP, AsianDomains.com.TW or AsianDomains.com.SG".
In the future you will be able to find detailed information on the Internet Development, as well as Domain development within these countries.
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com.SG - another TLD from Asia |
On Tuesday April 27th 2004 Key-Systems will yet add a further Top-Level-Domain from Asia. You will then be able to register your domains under com.SG (.SG is the official country-code Top-Level-Domain of Singapore).
Please note that you must be a registered business / organisation in order to be permitted to register a .SG Domain. Our partner in Singapore will provide a local Admin-C contact, which is required when registering a .SG Domain. Please note: should you wish to update the WHOIS information of your Organisation-Contact at a later point in time, then this costs 35,00 Euro (excl. V.A.T.). The price for a com.SG Domain registration will be 69,00 Euro (80,04 Euro incl. VAT) per year.
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.JP - Japan, the Land of the Rising Sun |
Key-Systems GmbH has just recently added .JP the ccTLD (country code Top-Level-Domain) of Japan to www.domaindiscount24.com. As .JP is an unrestricted domain, it can be registered by any individual or corporation
worldwide within seconds.
The growth of JP Domains in the past has been quite amazing. Until 2000 there was basically no mentionable growth at all, as you were only able to register third-level domains under co.jp. Unrestricted second-level .JP
Domains were released in May 2001. At that point in time the demand for .JP began to increase, as .JP domains were no longer restricted. In November 2003 a total of 237,735 Domains had been registered beneath .JP. If you also
include third-level domain registrations (co.JP and or.JP), then a total of 543,000 Domains had been registered.
"We are proud to add yet another Asian ccTLD to the TLD-Portfolio of Key-Systems, as figures in the past have shown, that this will be the market of tomorrow. Internet growth within the Asian Market, especially China, Japan and Taiwan, but also Korea is enormous and therefore Key-Systems will look to become accredited for further Asian TLDs during 2004." says Robert Birkner, Key Account Manager of Key-Systems GmbH.
domaindiscount24.com now does not only offer CN (com.CN, net.CN, org.CN) registrations, but also .JP registrations as well as pre-registrations for .TW (com.TW, org.TW and idv.TW).
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Key-Systems at the 2004 Annual CNNIC Registrars Conference in Sanya, Hainan Island, China |
The annual CNNIC Registrars Conference took place this year in Sanya on Hainan Island from February 26th 2004 until February 28th 2004.
The Hainan Island is located of the South Coast of Hainan and to the East of Vietnam. As Europe's #1 Registrar for .CN Domains and #2 worldwide beneath the NeuLevel accredited 55 Registrars Key-Systems took the opportunity of participating in this registrar conference in order to inform themselves on
the future happenings within the Asian market, as well as touch base with many domestic registrars.
Participants of the meeting were:
- approx. 30 domestic registrars
- representative from NeuLevel the exclusive distribution partner of CNNIC
- representative of Tucows, a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
- representative from Key-Systems, a NeuLevel accredited .CN Registrar
The major meetings took place on February 26th 2004.
Mr. William W. Mao (Mao Wei) Director of CNNIC officially opened the meeting by providing background information on the past
year and the business relationship with NeuLevel,the exclusive Registry Gateway Partner of CNNIC.
Director William W. Mao | 
Walter Wu, Assistant of Director General |
Towards the end of 2002 CNNIC liberalized their policies for the registrations of Domains beneath com.CN, net.CN and org.CN. NeuLevel had then started accrediting international registrars prior to .CN going live in the Third-Level in December 2002. Punctually on
December 15th 2002 NeuLevel successfully launched .CN in the Third-Level to the international community.
2003 was most important for the country-code Top-Level-Domain .CN, as CNNIC together with NeuLevel had planned the introduction of .CN in the Second-Level, meaning that companies, organisations and corporations worldwide could secure their trademarks, company
names, products, ...etc. beneath a .CN Domains, e.g. www.ibm.cn or www.vw.cn. On March 17th 2004 .CN was successfully launched internationally.
.CN in the second level has been proven a great success, as CNNIC had more than 158,000 CN Domains registered alone in 2003. Until February 29th 2004 CNNIC had a total of 168.067 CN Second Level Domains registered with an average growth rate of approx. 3 - 4 % each month.
In December 2003 CNNIC stated the total number of registered domains to be 337.066. This figure includes domains under .com.cn, .net.cn, .org.cn, .gov.cn, .ac.cn, edu.cn and .cn. CNNIC was able to achieve an average monthly growth rate of 6,30 %.
Due to the latest discussions at CNNIC and NeuLevel, this growth rate is bound to increase over the next months and especially with the introduction of further products for the Internet Community worldwide.
At the moment one of the biggest topics is the introduction of .CN IDNs (Internationalized Domain Names), along with .CN for individuals. At this point in time, these are simply discussions and nothing has yet been defined either by CNNIC nor NeuLevel. 
CNNIC Registrar Conference Room
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From Left to right: Walter Wu (CNNIC), Robert Birkner
(Key-Systems),Fernando Espana (NeuLevel) and Director Mao
(CNNIC) |
"It was Key-System's first time to be present on the Asian Market and we would like to express our thanks to CNNIC for the well-organised meeting, as well as NeuLevel
from whom we have received outstanding support which we pass on to our customers. The market in China is huge and has great potential, even though different to the
market in Europe or North America. It is essential to understand the market in China / Asia, and it is even more important to understand and respect the culture
within these target markets. The trip to China was informative and the hospitality I experienced was amazing. I returned with many good memories from the Registrar
Meeting and hope to be doing more business with domestic registrars in the near future."
Robert Birkner Key Account Manager, Key-Systems.
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.CN Domain Transfers now possible |
Just recently NeuLevel Inc. the exclusive distribution partner of the official .CN Registry (CNNIC) announced that the transfer functionality between NeuLevel Registrars has been enabled, meaning that the registrant of a domain now has the possibility of choosing his personal registrar.
When .CN Domain registrations were introduced many registrants increased their chances of getting the domain they wanted by placing apre-registration hrough different accredited registrars. Now the registrant has the possibility of transfering all of his .CN Domains to one registrar, which allows him to manage his domains in a more efficient manner. The procedure to do a transfer is as follows:
Anybody can transfer a .CN Domain. The only restriction which exists, is that the domain name has been registered for a minimum of 60 days.
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.CN Development report of May 03 |
Since the successful introduction of .CN to the global market, CN Domains can be found registered by registrants in more than 111 countries and regions worldwide. Among these a percentage of 86,33% domains registered are from domestic registrants and the remaining 13,67 % were from outside of China.
It is quite amazing, when looking at the distribution in the domestic provinces. Approx: 81% of the domestic registrations are divided between 10 provinces: Beijing, Guangdong, Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shandong, Fujian, Hubei, Liaoning and Shaanxi.
Currently CNNIC, the official Registry for .CN has 30 accredited domestic registrars. The top 4 domestic registrars that led the registration volume in May are:
1.) HiChina Web Solutions Limited (Beijing)
2.) Beijing Xinhai Development Corporations (China DNS)
3.) Xiamen Jingtong Technique Industry Co. Ltd. (China Channel)
4.) China Enterprise ASP Limited (Shenzhen)
According to CNNIC, there are momentarily 50 accredited foreign registrars. From these 50 registrars the German company Key-Systems GmbH is still leading the registration volumes shortly followed by two American Companies.
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.CN Transfers |
During the meetings in ICANN-Montreal at which Key-Systems attended we inquired about the possibility of .CN Domain Transfers. Unfortunately this feature is not yet available and the Registry had to postpone the time-schedule due to SARS. Transfers inbetween international CN accredited Registrar should become available within the next two - three months. The procedure will be exactly the same as .BIZ or .US Domain Transfers meaning the the registrant has to obtain the respective Auth.Code from his current regsitrar befoe initiating the transfer through the gaining registrar. The second step will be that the Registry will allow transfers between NeuLevel accredited registrars and CNNIC registrars making the market transparent. More information to follow soon or contact feedback@domains.cn
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.CN keeps on growing... |
CNNIC the official registry of CN the country code Top-Level-Domain of China just recently announced new domain registration figures for the month of May 2003. For com.cn the had a total of 152.321 domains registered, .net.cn 22.221, org.cn 10.763 and .cn 87.452. This is a total increase of approximately 4.5% compared to the previous month.
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