Joho the Blog
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March 04, 2006
Ethan's got some excellent posts, pointing to and contextualizing some other excellent posts on the meaning of China's new top level domains and on the Kenyan government's shutdown of a TV station and newspaper that it didn't much care for. Ethan's conclusion, based largely on Steven Murdoch's post, about the Chinese TLDs is that China is not trying to "create domain conflicts over .net or .com, but is instead creating some new TLDs that will work primarily in China." Still, it's a regrettable rupture in the Net. [Tags: ethan_zuckerman china kenya] Posted
by D. Weinberger at March 4, 2006 10:19 AM
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How are China's new TLDs any different from domains like ".co.uk" and ".ac.uk" and ".com.au"? (Besides what I presume is a lack of ".cn" on the end - though using Chinese characters could be effectively the same thing.) "National" TLDs have a very long Internet tradition.
Posted by: Chris Hanson | March 4, 2006 06:15 PM