.信息

Status:	Delegated
Language:	Chinese (Hans/Simplified)
Translates to:	info, knowledge, message
Type:	IDN gTLD
Category:	Technology
Priority #:	51 - Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. 60 -Afilias
More information:

.信息 is an IDN gTLD delgated in ICANN's New gTLD Program. After an ICANN Auction in June 2014, Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co. became the sole applicant for the string and is now the registry and manager of the TLD. The proposed application succeeded and was delegated to the Root Zone on 18 March, 2015.

.信息 是一个国际化通用顶级域名。该域名已被纳入ICANN的新通用顶级域名计划。

Current Applicant

1. Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co., Ltd.

Previous Applicant

1. Afilias

ICANN Auction

An ICANN auction "of last resort" was conducted by Power Auctions, LLC and concluded 4 June 2014 with Biejing Tele-info winning the rights to the string with a bid of $600,000. It was the first ICANN auction to be conducted.

现有申请人

1. Afilias
2. 北京电子信息网络科技有限公司

Application Details

Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co.

Excerpted from application response to question #18:

"Under the full support of China Academy of Telecommunication Research of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of the People’s Republic of China (“CATR”), Beijing Tele-info Network Technology Co., Ltd. (“Tele-info Ltd.”) applies for a registry of the Chinese gTLD “.信息” on the basis of CATR’s years of knowledge and understanding of the information industry and its mission of serving the information industry and Chinese Internet Community.

After a carefully selection process, Tele-info Ltd. has signed a binding term sheet with China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) pursuant to which CNNIC will provide back-end registry services for “.信息”. Tele-info Ltd. aims to leverage the technological expertise and proven channel management experience of CNNIC to provide “.信息” Chinese IDN domain name services and makes it the worldʹs most advanced Chinese domain name registry services."

Afilias

Excerpted from applicant response to question #18 in TLD application:

"Afilias in this application is applying for the Chinese IDN string of .INFO only. This is not an application for .INFO (ASCII). The true IDN string will be referred to throughout this application as .INFO (CHINESE IDN) for simplicity of review by ICANN.

Mission and purpose

.INFO (Chinese IDN) is intended to become one of the most common and easily accessible TLDs on the internet, especially targeted to Chinese speakers. It will vastly expand options for creating domains, and give new opportunities to those who have been unable to obtain a desired domain name in Chinese in existing TLDs. Most importantly, it provides the opportunity for the full domain name to be represented in their native language.

As of 2010, there were 444.9 million Chinese-speaking Internet users, making it the 2nd most common language in use on the Internet (Source: http:⁄⁄www.internetworldstats.com⁄stats7.htm). The interest and demand for new domains in Chinese is only expected to grow. The .INFO (Chinese IDN) TLD will help facilitate the expansion of those opportunities for Chinese-speaking Internet users.

While we expect long-term growth as Internet penetration increases, we expect that awareness and early adoption will ramp up gradually and the first few years will experience a modest adoption rate. Therefore, we anticipate that we will have 5,000 domains under management (DUMs) after three years.

申请细节

北京电子信息网络科技有限公司

在隶属于中国工业和信息服务部的中国电信研究院（CATR）的支持下，北京电子信息网络科技有限公司（Tele-info Ltd.）提出了让【.信息】成为中文通用顶级域名的申请。该申请是基于中国电信研究院多年在信息产业市场的数据及研究完成的，其目标在于为中国信息产业及互联网社区提供服务。

经过仔细删选，北京电子信息网络科技有限公司与中国互联网信息中心（CNNIC）签署了一项关于CNNIC给【.信息】提供后端注册服务的协议。北京电子信息网络科技有限公司旨在利用其科技方面的专业性及CNNIC的专业渠道管理经验，为【.信息】提供中文国际化顶级域名服务，并使之成为全球范围内最先进的中文域名注册系统。

Afilias

目标和目的

申请人旨在将【.信息】打造为针对中文使用者的，最普遍且最易使用的顶级域名之一。这将大大拓宽域名选项，并给那些未能持有理想的中文顶级域名的用户提供新的机会。最值得一提的是，这将使域名得以用中文完整呈现。

申请人希望域名申请成功后的开始几年内逐渐为更多用户所认识并开始接收下级域名申请。长远来看（三年后），申请人预计将有5000个域名处于其运行管理下。

Internationalized Domain Name

Top-Level Domain