2010: Prediction for the coming year – Chinese domain industry

A list of 10 predictions made by Chinese netizens about what 2010 holds for the Chinese domaining industry.
1, Total .cn domain name registrations will likely reduce in numbers by year-end to less than 10 million
2, Chinese domain names ".中国" registrations is expected to exceed one million
By the second half of 2010, it is expected that China's ccTLD IDN (country top level domain of multilingual domain names) ".中国", will be in the ICANN root server.
As reported in Nov 2009, China's Internet domain name statistics are said to be:
.CN domain names registered: 13.65 million
IDN.CN domain names registered: 460,000,
In November the number of .CN domain names added were 589,000, with 36,000 of these being IDN.CN
However it is still to be seen the impact of CNNIC's announcement of new stricter policies in registration of .CN domains, which also affects IDN.CN,. November last year saw a daily avaerage of 1,200 IDN.CN domain registered daily, and it is estimated that by year end there could be approximately 1 million IDN.CN domains registered.
3, gTLD domain name registrations at the end of this year will have increased by 20% over 2009 numbers
4, A new version of "China Internet Domain Name Regulations" by the end of the year
5, Chinese domain name registration business to remain competitive
6, The first Chinese domain name registration services with the industry associations will be set up
7, The Chinese domain industry will reach nearly 7.6 billion Yuan in production value
8, The Chinese domain name secondary market management will enter the standardization stage
9, Domain name dispute arbitration cases will receive more coverage in news & media
10, International organizations, IETF and ICANN will approach the Chinese public

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