“.Vn” domain name surpassed international domain name

Ngoc Huynh

In the Internet Day 2014 event, the Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) released the report of Internet resource. According to this report, “.vn” domain name continued to rise 13% in the past year and has been a leading figure in the number of registration in ASEAN region.

In Asia, ‘.vn’ domain name ranked seventh in the top 10 countries and territories in Asia for number of registrations, followed by China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Iran.

Besides, the registration of “.vn” domain name rate is higher than the international domain name. By the end of September, Vietnam has 291,103 “vn.” domain names and 217,235 international domain names.

On account for the significant increase in new “.vn” domain name registrations in Vietnam, VNNIC said that one of the important “pushes” to stimulate a real market for ‘.vn” domain name is the Prime Minister issued Decision No. 38/2014 on the approval of transferring domain name use rights from September 1, 2014. At the same time, last August, the number of Vietnamese domain names has reached a milestone with 1 million domain names, which helped Vietnam becoming the country with the largest multilingual domain names (native domain name) in the world, according to the report of “multilingual domain names situation” across the globe.

For Internet address resource, in 2014, the Vietnam National IPv6 Task Force completed content and task to promote IPv6 deployment for electronic newspaper, electronic comprehensive information sites, social networks, the national domain registration, the international domain name registration in Vietnam, the software manufacturers and the network equipment manufacturers in the National Action Plan on IPv6.

With the number of IPv4 addresses in Vietnam reached 15,627,008, ranking 2nd in ASEAN, 8th in the Asian region and 26th in the world. Because IPv4 address resources were exhausted, there for the transition to IPv6 was an urgent need in Vietnam, the report emphasized.

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Source : http://vietnamnet.vn/