TLD Registry October Newsletter 域通联达十月新闻 October is going to be an event-packed month for TLD Registry. There are some important conferences, such as ICANN 51 in Los Angeles, to attend and new features to announce. See where we’re traveling to and what exciting news we have to share! 在这个10月，域通联达将参与许多业界重要会议，比如在洛杉矶举办的ICANN第51届会议，并且宣布公司的重大事项。以下是公司所到之处以及相关新闻！ Upcoming Events 活动预告 Chinese Domain Name Roadtrip 2014 Austin-Phoenix-LA: October 9-12 2014中文域名公路旅行 奥斯汀-凤凰城-洛杉矶：10月9日-12日 On October 9 - 12, 2014, TLD Registry will be embarking on a week-long road trip across the southwest United States, bringing with them the popular Chinese trend of "pudding noodles", and the advocacy and education of Chinese Domain Names to interested (and hungry) potential investors. Beginning in Austin, Texas from October 6-8, the TLD Registry executive team will be occupied with industry meetings and team workshops. Then the team will be travelling to Phoenix, Arizona to connect with industry members and reach out to locals in hopes of introducing the world's most-sold Chinese "new gTLD" IDNs.  From Phoenix, the team will then be driving on their way to Los Angeles, California - just in time for ICANN 51. The combination of Chinese domain names, pudding noodles, a multi-state road trip, parties in Beverly Hills, and media outreach, the Chinese Domain Name Road Trip 2014 will surely pique the interest of some high tech business folks - and turn a lot of other heads in the process as well. 2014年10月9日-12日，域通联达将会开始一周横跨美国西南部的公路旅行。在这次活动中，我们会将台湾当下最流行的布丁面条带到沿路的华人社区，并向潜在的投资人推广全中文域名。域通联达团队在10月6日-8日将从德克萨斯州的奥斯汀启程，参加各种行业会议和团队演讲，然后前往亚利桑那州的凤凰城与业内人士会合，并向当地人推广当今最热销的中文“新国际化通用顶级域名”。然后从凤凰城出发，前往加利福尼亚州的洛杉矶参加ICANN第51届大会。这次活动集合了推广中文域名、布丁面条、横跨几大州的公路旅行、贝弗利山庄派对和媒体报道于一体，2014中文域名公路旅行一定可以引起更多高科技行业人士的兴趣，以及广大群众对中文域名投资的关注。   We’ll be sharing photos and reports from our roadtrip, so please follow along on our Twitter, Facebook, Weibo, LinkedIn, Instagram and Wikipedia pages! 我们将分享公路旅行途中拍摄的照片和报告，敬请关注我们的Twitter, Facebook, 微博, 领英, Instagram 和维基百科 页面！ TLD Registry’s ICANN 51 Party in Los Angeles: October 12 10月12日：域通联达将会在洛杉矶举办第51届ICANN大会前午宴 On Sunday October 12, TLD Registry will be co-hosting an afternoon party in partnership with our friends at .CLUB Domains at LA’s best contemporary Chinese restaurant, Chin Chin in Beverly Hills. The event will be attended by the first 70 of our many partners and friends who have RSVPed!. It will feature performances by a lion dance team, classical Chinese musicians, and much more exciting entertainment.  The party goers will enjoy a fun afternoon with fellow industry leaders at one of Los Angeles well-known spots. 10月12日星期日，域通联达将会与我们来自.CLUB域名的朋友在洛杉矶最现代化的中餐餐厅，即比弗利山庄的Chin Chin餐厅举办宴会。此次活动将邀请前70名向我们预约的嘉宾参加。宴会上会有中国传统的舞龙舞狮表演，传统中国乐器演奏以及其他精彩的表演节目。希望所有到场嘉宾都能在洛杉矶人最爱的中国餐馆度过愉快的时光。 ICANN 51 Los Angeles: October 12-16 10月12-16日：ICANN51届洛杉矶会议 From October 12-16, ICANN 51 will be hosted at Los Angeles’ Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Three times a year, attendees travel internationally from all parts of the world to attend the domain industry’s most important meeting. Advancing ICANN stated goal of “one world, one Internet”, the meeting unites the Internet community to discuss our industry’s latest policies and issues. TLD Registry is proud to be able to participate alongside global and individual leaders collaborating to diversify and evolve the Internet. Please come visit us at ICANN 51 Los Angeles, and meet our multinational team (including the key members of our Beijing-based team). You can email us to set up a meeting.  ICANN第51届大会将于10月12-16日在洛杉矶的世纪广场凯悦酒店举行。人们从世界各地前来参加每年举行三次的域名界最重要的会议。会议围绕着ICANN核心目标“同一个世界，同一个互联网”，将全世界的域名人聚集在一起，讨论业界最新政策与动态。域通联达很荣幸能与全球及个人领袖共同合作推动互联网的发展及其多元化。 欢迎大家前来参加 ICANN第51届洛杉矶会议和域通联达的跨国团队（包括我们北京团队的主要成员）会面。如有意向，请发邮件给我们进行咨询。 Pure Finland Investment Seminar and Finnish Ambassador Reception: October 23 10月23日：纯净芬兰投资研讨会和芬兰大使招待会 Pure Finland is a Finnish government project focused...

There are approximately 50 million ethnic Chinese people living outside of China’s mainland, which itself is home to nearly 1.4 billion Chinese. Ethnic Chinese people comprise 3.7% of the world’s population beyond China’s borders. Most of these consumers read, write and speak Chinese. Densely populated Chinese communities outside of China, oftentimes referred to as “Chinatowns,” are a good way of demonstrating the size of the global Chinese consumer base. Using fully-Chinese domain names, such as Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网), is a powerful and inexpensive method of reaching this vast demographic group of consumers. Chinese language domain names can be an exceptionally powerful and cost-effective way of promoting your product, service or message in Chinese language communities. Chinese language domain names are culturally relevant, linguistically correct, and commercially attractive. They can substantially enhance your SEO and positively influence an audience of global consumers. In the current “expansion of the internet” new gTLD program, in which several thousand new top-level domains (TLDs) are coming on line, the world’s biggest-selling* non-English new gTLD domain names are in Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网). Click to download a high-resolution PDF of TLD Registry's Where do Chinese people live" Infographic. Chinatowns in North America New York City contains the largest ethnic Chinese population outside of Asia, totaling 682,265 individuals, per the 2010 United States Census. There are at least nine different Chinatown communities in New York State alone. The Chinatown in San Francisco, California, is the oldest Chinatown in North America and also one of the largest Chinese communities outside of Asia. Two other cities in California have significant Chinese populations: Los Angeles with more than 66,782 ethnic Chinese and San Jose with 63,434 ethnic Chinese. Chicago’s Chinatown is on the Windy City’s South Side and is home to more than 70,000 Chinese people. Honolulu is home to more than 40,000 Chinese, and its Chinatown Historic District is one of the oldest Chinatowns in the United States. Canada contains two important Chinatowns: Vancouver and Toronto. Vancouver’s Chinatown is the largest in Canada. It is a popular tourist attraction and one of the largest historic Chinatowns on the continent. There are approximately 400,000 ethnic Chinese in the city, comprising 17% of the Vancouver Metropolitan Area’s population. Approximately 279,000 ethnic Chinese live in Toronto, comprising 10.8% of the total population. Toronto’s Chinatown is now one of the largest Chinatowns in North America and one of several major Chinese-Canadian communities in the Greater Toronto Area. Chinatowns in Asia The largest Chinatown in Asia is in Yokohama Japan, just south of Tokyo, which is one of the largest Chinatowns in the world. There are approximately 675,000 ethnic Chinese currently living in...

The TLD Registry team is excited and flattered that our Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) TLDs have been featured as the current most successful IDN new gTLDs by the European Registries for Internet Domains (EURid),  in their comprehensive World Report on Internationalized Domain Names 2014. The August 2014 volume of the report is supported by the United Nations’ UNESCO, Verisign, the Council for European National Top Level Domain Registries (CENTR), the Latin American and Caribbean Association of cCTLDs  (LACTLD), the Asia Pacific Top Level Domain Name Association (APTLD), and the African Top Level Domain (AfTLD). The report was created with the intention of propagating international equality within the internet’s global community. Our goal of empowering 20% of humanity to use their own great and ancient language, Chinese, in website addresses is what drives our work, and we are delighted to have been made a case study in the report. “I believe that internationalised domain names are an essential entry point for a multilingual and inclusive Internet, and that is why we have made them an integral part of our policies to protect an Internet that is open and accessible to all”, said Neelie Kroes, the Vice President of the European Commission. TLD Registry has been championing international internet equality for seven years now, as demonstrated by our two leading IDN’s, Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website, which offers native Chinese internet users the ability to use domain names in their own language.  The report gives a full analysis of the nature of IDNs — why it drives multilingualism, usage, enhancement abilities, industry opinions, new IDN gTLDs, and the industry stats. A full chapter is dedicated to universal acceptance – what it means, how it is supported, and recent developments (such as Google’s implementation of IDN email addresses in Gmail). TLD Registry’s CMO Simon Cousins stated, "We're proud to see our Chinese IDNs under Dot Chinese Online (.​在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) highlighted as a case study in the EurID-UNESCO report. The TLD Registry team is proud of the work we do to improve the lives of vast numbers of ordinary Chinese internet users”. The Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website case study features are mentioned in Section 8.2.5, on page 86, focusing on new IDN gTLDS. The study gives an overview of our top registrations with corresponding IDN TLDs (.在线 and .中文网). An honorable mention in Section 8.2.2, page 84 states that Dot Chinese Online (.在线) and Dot Chinese Website (.中文网) are the “IDN new gTLDs with the highest volumes of registrations to date (May 2014)” . TLD Registry is proud to represent the integration of internationalized domain names for the world’s Chinese...

--TLD Registry September Newsletter-- 域通联达9月新闻通讯 During the few months preceding the ICANN 51 Los Angeles Meeting in October, TLD Registry has been busy traveling and launching new and exciting programs. Check up on what we’ve been up to this past month and what we’ve accomplished! 在十月份举办的ICANN 51届洛杉矶会议之前的几个月里，域通联达一直在世界各地奔波，忙于推出新的和令人兴奋的项目。看看我们在上个月所做的事情和取得的成绩吧！ A Look Back At August 八月回顾 Registrar Network Continues to Expand -- New Visits in Beijing, Xiamen and Foshan 注册商网络持续扩大-- 域通联达八月中国行：北京，厦门，佛山 TLD Registry and .CLUB teamed up last month and ventured out together to Beijing, Xiamen, Foshan, Zhuhai, and Hong Kong. This trip to China was the perfect opportunity to connect with Chinese consumers, domainers, investors, partners, potential new registrars, and domain enthusiasts. TLD Registry met with 12 different registrars and aftermarket service providers. Domain business meetings aside, TLD Registry was also able to launch their brand new Chinese Domain Ambassador Program and host multiple Mid-Autumn Festival parties alongside .CLUB. After the conclusion of the China mission trip, the team stopped by Hyderabad for World Domain Day and Bombay in India before heading back home. 八月，域通联达携手.CLUB共同前往北京、 厦门、 佛山、 珠海、和 香港。此次中国行是与中国的消费者、米农、投资者、合作伙伴、潜在注册商和域名爱好者进行沟通的绝佳机遇。域通联达在中国行中一共与12个注册商和售后服务提供商进行了会面。除了参加域名企业会议之外，域通联达还趁机推出其全新的中文域名大使项目并联手.CLUB主办了数场中秋节派对。结束中国行之后，我们的团队还前往印度的海得拉巴参加了世界域名节，并在印度的孟买短暂停留后返回家乡。 Chinese Domain Ambassador Program Launched on Aug.18 2014 Beijing 中文域名大使项目8月18日在北京正式启动 On August 18, 2014 in Beijing, TLD Registry launched their grassroots Chinese Domain Ambassador Program for young domain entrepreneurs. In response to the positive feedback after Chinese IDNs went live from a group of young Chinese Mainland domainers, we reached out to these enthusiasts and have built friendships over a couple months. Because of this reaction, we decided to establish the Chinese Domain Ambassador Program to support these young entrepreneurs to improve their professionalism and expand their understanding of global opportunities, techaniques, and business models. At the launch of the program, the young creative entrepreneurs are assigned as Ambassadors and gain access to our reserved premium domains, direct contact with our experts, an outlet to exchange ideas and business plans, invitations to events hosted in China, as well as a certificate of participation and a flashy t-shirt! Through this program, we are able to localize ourselves in China with a grassroots approach. This innovative support program validates the commitment TLD Registry has to Chinese netizens and domainers. 2014年8月18日，T域通联达在北京启动了面向青年域名创业者的草根项目中文域名大使项目。作为对中文国际化域名上线后所获得的积极反馈的回应，我们与中国大陆的这些青年米农取得联系，经过几个月的交流和沟通，我们彼此之间建立起了深厚的友谊。因此，我们决定成立中文域名大使项目来支持这些青年创业者，帮助他们提升专业知识并加深他们对全球机遇、技术和商业模式的理解。推出该项目后，我们选拔出对域名投资及学习域名知识有浓厚兴趣的青年作为域名大使，他们将有机会获得我们保留的优质域名，直接与我们的专家进行沟通，进行思想和业务规划交流，参与在中国举办的活动，并且取得参与证书和一款炫酷的T恤！ 通过这个新颖的支持项目，我们能够与中国的基层人员进行交流，兑现域通联达对中文网民和米农的承诺。 Mid-Autumn Festival Party Beijing Aug.19, Xiamen Aug.21 中秋晚宴：8月19日 北京， 8月21日 厦门 On August 19, TLD Registry and .CLUB Domains kick-started a 3-day series of Mid-Autumn Festival Parties in Beijing and Xiamen. The Beijing Mid-Autumn Festival Party was hosted at the Park Hyatt Hotel where more than 160 people from different registrars and media joined the festivities. As a final prize for lucky draw, two premium domain names: 嫦娥.在线 and woaibeijing.club (one from TLD Registry and one from .CLUB respectively) were given out at each of the parties, as well as smaller prizes such as Pure Finland chocolate and 50 Cent headphones. This year the Mid-Autumn Festival, commonly known as the “Moon Cake Festival" or "Moon Festival” falls on September 8th. It is held on the 15th day of the 8th month according to the Chinese calendar on...

On August 27, 2014, India’s .IN Registry launched its first native-language ccTLD, .भारत (.Bharat) in the national capital, New Delhi. The ccTLD is the word for “India” written in the Devanagari script, and is the matching Internationalized Domain Name (IDN) ccTLD for .IN. TLD Registry is ecstatic that this new IDN TLD is now part of the IDN community. .IN registry NIXI CEO Dr. Govind kindly invited TLD Registry to the launch party where the Minister for Communications and Information Technology, and Minister for Law and Justice, Shri. Ravi Shankar Prasad presented to the world the new Hindi IDN. Our own CMO Simon Cousins and CEO Arto Iskoski were fortunate enough to become acquainted with Dr. Govind, CEO of the National Internet Exchange of India (NIXI), during the events at World Domain Day 2014 in Hyderabad, India a few weeks ago. Unfortunately, due to previous travel engagements in China and India, TLD Registry was not able to participate in the function. We are sorry we missed such a wonderful opportunity to witness this milestone. NIXI, like TLD Registry, has been advocating a multilingual Internet community of universal access. In coordination with the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC), NIXI will be launching more IDNs in other regional languages. This is truly a tremendous step towards achieving universal accessibility in numerous respects. The release of this domain name in Devanagari script means that it will support the languages of Bodo (Boro), Dogri, Hindi, Konkani, Maithili, Marathi, Nepali, and Sindhi-Devanagari. Hindi alone, is the national language of India, with the second largest population in the world (following China), making it the fourth most spoken language in the world. This is a pretty big deal - nearly 20% of the world just gained the satisfaction of being included into the world of the Internet. Devanagari using communities are now empowered to use their native written language on the Internet, enabling them to foster a deeper understanding about other Indian people and their culture. .भारत has not only transformed the lives of the Devanagari speaking people, but has also unified the digital world with India. Before the introduction of IDNs, non-English speakers felt a lack of relevance in the digital world. But now, the feeling has transferred more closely to a lack of a digital divide. TLD Registry is celebrating that current feeling with India and its people. Congratulations .भारत and welcome! Amanda Ng, TLD...

域通联达祝贺.ASIA顶级域名创办人乔敬日前正式成为国际互联网管理机构（ICANN）顶级国码域名支持机构（ccNSO）理事。ccNSO是ICANN的重要分支，它致力于参与及引领顶级国码域名的发展，域通联达“.在线”、“.中文网”的发展更是与ccNSO息息相关。 作为在互联网、域名和移动技术领域拥有超过15年的工作经验的专家，乔敬是.ASIA顶级域名的创办人，目前又创办了亚洲首家商标管理技术公司中域国际，这两家公司都取得了巨大的成功。域通联达一直都很欣赏并支持乔敬和他的团队，相信他成为ccNSO理事后一定能够促进顶级国码域名之间的交流，并为顶级国码域名创造更好的发展环境。作为全中文顶级域名领航者，域通联达也会全力支持ICANN顶级国码域名的工作。 域通联达在此衷心祝贺乔敬加入ICANN理事会！  ...