Zodiac
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| Type: | Privately Held |
| Industry: | New gTLDs |
| Founded: | 2008 |
| Country: | Hong Kong |
| Email: | gtld@zodiac-corp.com |
| Key People | |
| ChingHong Seng (James Seng), Managing Director Xiangjian Li (Eugene Li), Vice-President | |
Zodiac is the single largest Chinese gTLD applicant, having applied for 15 TLDs in ICANN's New gTLD Program, 13 of which are IDNs.[1] The company was founded and is led by James Seng (ChingHong Seng), who is largely credited as the inventor of the IDN (Internationalized Domain Name), which allows users to utilize the Internet using non-Latin standard scripts. The possibility of introducing generic IDNs to the market has been made possible for the first time via ICANN's new TLD expansion program; all previous IDNs introduced were ccTLDs.[2]
Zodiac has partnered with KNET to provide backend registry functions.[3]
TLDs Applied for[edit | edit source]
- .wang - transliteration of characters for "web" and "king" (common Chinese surname)
- .show
- .佛山 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) script for Foshan
- .广东 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) script for Guangdong
- .广州 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) script for Guangzhou
- .深圳 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) for Shenzhen
- .八卦 -Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "gossip"
- .网店 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "webshop/e-shop"
- .商城 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "mall"
- .我爱你 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "I love you"
- .时尚 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "vogue/fashion"
- .网站 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "website/homepage/portal"
- .娱乐 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "entertainment"
- .慈善 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "charity"
- .集团 - Chinese (Hans/Simplified) "conglomerate/group"[4]