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Registering a domain name under the official China country code top-level domain (ccTLD) .CN will not get easier anytime soon. Latest news is that the .CN registry has employed 600 workers to manually check all domain registrations for policy violations such as pornographic content and inaccurate records.

Consequently, we have decided not to offer .CN domains as long as any restrictions are in place. However, if China is your destination market, we would like to suggest two alternative solutions: .CN.COM and .ASIA web addresses.

.CN.COM: An unrestricted domain extension for China

The alternative .CN.COM internet extension is managed by CentralNic, the registry for .LA (Laos) and many other popular second-level domain suffixes such as .EU.COM (European Union) or .US.COM (United States). Domains under .CN.COM are completely unrestricted, enabled for Internationalized Domain Names (IDNs), including Chinese character sets, and can be registered by anybody worldwide. This makes it the perfect web address if you do not want a domain name that is heavily regulated.

We have now enabled .CN.COM at iWantMyName with a special introductory offer. All new registrations are only $19.90 USD until the end of April. Please see our domain promotions for further details.

In our next article about .CN domain alternatives we will talk about .ASIA, the new generic top-level domain (gTLD) for the Asian community.

It's Māori Language Week in New Zealand and on this occasion we're very proud to announce support for Internationalised Domain Names (IDNs) at iWantMyName. Indigenous groups around the world are looking seriously at how best to protect their digital identity, as the Internet continues to impact powerfully in both in economic and sociological terms. Providing Internationalised Domain Names not only for the use of Māori language domains but non-Latin characters in general is a small but significant step towards preserving the expression of language and culture online.

Internationalised Domain Names can be accessed in any modern web browser such as Firefox, Safari, Chrome, Opera and Internet Explorer (> Version 7.0 which is another reaseon why IE 6 must die).

IDNs at iWantMyName are currently supported in the following domain extensions.

Generic top-level domains:

• .COM, .NET (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
• .ORG (Spanish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean (Hangul), Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish, Chinese)
• .INFO (Danish, German, Hungarian, Icelandic, Korean, Lithuanian, Latvian, Polish, Swedish, Spanish)
• .BIZ (Korean, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Finnish, Hungarian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese)

Country code top-level domains (in alphabetical order):

• .AT - Austria (supported characters)
• .AC - Ascension Island (IDN Policy)
• .CC - Cocos & Keeling Islands (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
• .CH - Switzerland (supported characters)
• .CN - China (Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
• .DE - Germany (supported characters)
• .DK - Denmark (æ, ø, å, ö, ä, ü, and/or é)
• .ES - Spain (supported characters)
• .IO - British Indian Ocean Territory (IDN Policy)
• .JP - Japan (Kanji, Hiragana & Katakana)
• .LA - Laos (supported languages)
• .LI - Liechtenstein (supported characters)
• .NU - Niue (All Western and Eastern European languages, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic, Hindi, Thai, Lao, etc. - see all supported languages)
• .PL - Poland (more information)
• .SH - Saint Helena (IDN Policy)
• .TV - Tuvalu (nearly all languages and character sets - more information)
• .TW - Taiwan (Simplified or Traditional Chinese)
• .WS - Western Samoa

See our domain search with IDNs in action: