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The Pioneer Domains Program will be designed to curb abusive registrations, thereby reducing social costs, as well as to promote the adoption of the TLD and maximize the social value of the TLD. An important goal of the program is to allow for the introduction of showcase domains under the TLD in a well structured manner, while ensuring that the protection of the rights of others is maintained. The implementation of showcase domains supports the development of positive foundation of usage of the TLD."<ref>[http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/34 ApplicationDetails, gTLDresult.ICANN.org]</ref>
The Pioneer Domains Program will be designed to curb abusive registrations, thereby reducing social costs, as well as to promote the adoption of the TLD and maximize the social value of the TLD. An important goal of the program is to allow for the introduction of showcase domains under the TLD in a well structured manner, while ensuring that the protection of the rights of others is maintained. The implementation of showcase domains supports the development of positive foundation of usage of the TLD."<ref>[http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/34 ApplicationDetails, gTLDresult.ICANN.org]</ref>
===Zodiac===
[[Zodiac]] Holdings Limited (“Zodiac”) was founded and incorporated in Cayman Islands by [[James Seng]] in 2008 in anticipation of the launch of the ICANN new gTLD program. Currently, it is headquartered in Hong Kong and has an operation center in Beijing, China. The team consists of experienced veterans in the global and China domain name industry like James Seng and former China Network Information Center (CNNIC) employees such as Eugene Li.
[[James Seng]] is one of the Internet pioneers in Singapore and is widely recognized as an international expert in numerous Internet areas. He is well known as the inventor of [[IDN]] and has co-chaired the IDN Working Group in IETF from 1999 to 2004, leading to the standardization of IDN.
[[Eugene Li]], is the former Vice President of China Network Information Center (CNNIC). During his 7 years tenure at CNNIC, Eugene has launched initiatives that doubled domain name registrations and helped CNNIC become the no. 1 ccTLD and no. 2 TLD by volume. At the time when Eugene left to join Zodiac, CNNIC has over 13 million domain name registrations.
Under the vision and leadership of James Seng, with the support of angels, venture capital firm and family offices of approximately USD 20 million in place for the application and operation of the new gTLDs, Zodiac is seeking to become the first and largest privately held ICANN-approved TLD registry operator in Asia. It intends to operate TLDs that are centric to the Chinese culture.
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[.网店], pronounced as “wang dian” means “online store” in Chinese. To the Chinese community, “STRING” is commonly used to refer to small online stores setup by a single individual. In China, there are platforms like Taobao.com and Paipai.com that offer these people a quick way to setup their online store.<ref>[http://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/applicationdetails/1865 ApplicationDetails, gTLDresult.ICANN.org]Retrieved 15 Jan 2013</ref>
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