We Suggest that some policies and/or rules should be added in the
gTLD-MoU and/or CORE-MoU to regulate the registration of the Country's
Names and Codes(CNC, hereafter) as the second level domain names under
the seven new top level domain names.
1. Which should be included in CNC?
(1) Country codes defined in ISO-3166 in two letters such as au, ch,
cn, uk,us.
(2) Country codes defined in ISO-3166 in three letters such as chn ,
usa.
(3) Well accepted country names, such as Australia ,China , England ,
Germany.
(4) Adjective form of the country names, such as Chinese, German.
(5) Phonetic form of the country names in domestic languages, such as
Zhongguo(China), Nippon(Japan), Deutchland (Germany).
2. Who can register CNC as a second level domain name in gTLD?
CNC should only be registered by the national NIC of the country. For
example, domain name such as cn.firm , china.shop , chinese.rec, chn.art
, should only be registered by CNNIC.
3. Reasons of our suggestion
(1) Only the country itself has the property right of that country's
name and code.
(2) It is easier for the users to find information related to the right
countries.
(3) With the rapid development of Internet, more and more countries
have been linked to the Internet. The Governments in many countries have
and will use Internet as their official channel to announce their
policies and statements. If others than the right government own the
CNC, many problems will arise. When any dispute arises in the CNC
registration it may cause even worse conflicts between countries. For
example, China has been suffering a lot from the domain names CHINA.COM,
CN.COM, CHINA.NET and CN.NET, for their wrong usage and spreading
roomers pretending the Chinese government.
Based on the above reasons and more, we suggest that gTLD-MoU and/or
CORE-MoU should formulate some additional policies and rules on CNC , in
order to avoid further possible problems in the future.
Mao Wei
Director of CNNIC
mao@cnnic.net.cn