China, China Byte, 29 September 2000 -- Recently, China Channel has announced a strategic alliance with i-DNS.net and i-EMAIL.net to pioneer registration services for Chinese domain names like .com and Chinese-addressed email services.

The offering of Chinese domain name registration services is made possible through i-DNS.net's two-year i-DNS technology research with Asia Pacific Networking Group (APNG) and the National University of Singapore (NUS). The Chinese-addressed emailing service is part of the research for Internationalized Domain Name System technology and can support addresses like .com.

The Chinese domain name, as compared to an English one, is much easier to remember and more meaningful for the average Chinese user; and is like the trademark, or brand name, of a company that is representative of its corporate image invaluable in terms of publicity purposes.

Reportedly, i-DNS.net has a multilingual domain name database archiving popular domains like .com, .net and .org. Its i-DNS technology can support more than fifty languages including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai; and is fully compatible with any servers, email systems, emailing applications and Internet Protocol.

These two technologies are a breakthrough for the Internet world as it resolves the language barriers by allowing non-English speaking users to access the net in a language they are comfortable with. This is believed to be the next step of Internet evolution and would truly create a global Internet.

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