APTLD Busan Meeting, 25-26 August 2011

.tw/. 台灣 (Taiwan)IDN update

Miao-Ling Lu, TWNIC25 August 2011

APTLD Busan Meeting,

APTLD Busan Meeting, 25-26 August 2011

Outline

Statistics of .tw/.台灣 (Taiwan) Domain Name

IDN Promotions and Achievements

Research Project on IDN Dispute Resolution

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Statistics of .tw/.台灣 (Taiwan) Domain Name

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Registration for IDN.IDN (Taiwan) The IDN ccTLD . 台灣 was launched on October 14, 2010.

• Registration fee for a “traditional-Chinese-characters . 台灣” domain names is NT $800 (US28) per year.

• Upon registration, TWNIC automatically provides the resolution for the corresponding domain name in the ‘simplified Chinese character’ form (e.g. 正体中文 . 台湾 ) free of charge.

• In addition, the same domain name in the traditional Chinese characters under the .tw domain space (e.g. 正體中文 .tw ) will be automatically registered under the name of the applicant.

Automatic registration

Automatic Resolution

Automatic Resolution

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.tw/.台灣 (Taiwan) Registration Channels

TisNet APT Hinet Net-Chinese PCHome NCIC TWMobile WebCCIP MirrorNeuStar

10 Accredited Registrars of TWNIC ：7 in Taiwan, 1 in Singapore, 1 in Malaysia, and 1 registry gateway in USA

Taiwan

Malaysia

Singapore

USA

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Statistics of the total number of domain names in Taiwan

Updated: July 31, 2011

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Different types of domain names for .tw/. 台灣 (Taiwan)

Total: 504,146

Updated: July 31, 2011

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Statistics of the .tw/. 台灣 Domain Name Dispute cases

144 cases/158 domains

Updated: July 31, 2011

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IDN Promotions and Achievements

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Promotion of IDN ccTLD . 台灣• The objective of the promotion is to create widespread public

awareness of the new applications and value of the IDN ccTLD . 台灣

• The promotion activities include press announcements, public conferences, seminars in the schools and the training courses for the business community.

• The content of the promotion is on using IDN. 台灣 for brand identity or protection and as a way for direct communication

with the local community.

Promotion Activities• The symposium, titled “Creative IDN-based

applications and services” was held on March 30 with an attendance of 220.

• The Taipei carnival for the “Innovative and Unique SMBs” was held on May 7-8 with an

attendance of 3,000.

• The seminar, titled “Creating the new e-life Dream”, invited the founders of the community websites to share their experience for students, was held on May 12 in Asia University.

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Annual Web design campaign of for .tw/ . 台灣。

This year, the theme is 「「 100 years 100 years of Nation Building. Happiness of of Nation Building. Happiness of TaiwanTaiwan」」

Participant needs to use the .tw/ . 台灣 domain name to build up their website (either English domain or IDN) 。

The award ceremony will be held in December 2011.

2011 10th NetKing Web Design Campaign

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<Explore Taiwan, Progress in a Century> Media Cooperation

Cooperation with well-known magazine in Taiwan to promote the IDN and use IDN 「進步 100. 台灣」as the official website of this event.This magazine has a circulation of more than 100,000.The IDN of the website in the documentary is ‘broadcasted’ to counties and cities.

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The newspaper column and the movie• Cooperation with newspaper to publish a column regularly .

– Brand protection.– Taking the lead in adopting IDN for branding.– Advantages for using Chinese domain names: helpful to promote locally.

• The well-known movie has a Chinese

domain name as their official website. 

賽德克巴萊 . 台灣

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Research Project on IDN Dispute Resolution

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The research project for 2nd level domain name dispute resolution

An objective for this research is to strengthen the management of 2nd level domain name registration services– collect, analyze and generalize the dispute cases of WIPO and

ccTLDs in Asia.– Build up dispute principles in .tw/. 台灣 for 2nd level domain names.– As the Trademark Law in Taiwan was amended in the end of this

May (2011), the dispute resolution will be impacted by the provisions of trademark violations in the future.

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Domain name dispute symposium and seminar The panelist, Professor Mark Patridge, of

WIPO was invited to have a keynote speech. The panelist of dispute provider and

specialist in Taiwan were invited to join the symposium.

Lawyers, legal counsels and domainers

joined the seminar. Domain Name Dispute Sympoisum

Domain Name Dispute Seminar

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THANKS