.cn

.cn is the People's Republic of China shown on 28 November 1990. Domain name administration in mainland China is managed through a branch of the Ministry of Industry in addition to Information. The registry is sustains by China Internet Network Information Center CNNIC. Entities connected to Hong Kong, Macau, as alive as Taiwan often usage .hk, .mo, .tw respectively, despite their corresponding second-level domains under .cn usable for those regions. The Chinese alphabet internationalized country code is .中国.

Second-level domains

Any individual may register for second-level domain names. However, the registry has created a kind of predefined second-level domains for certain manner of organizations together with geographic locations. Registrations for such third-level domains were available ago second-level domains became available in 2003, and registrants of third-level domains were given priority for label at thelevel.

The two-letter abbreviations are the same as those found in GB/T 2260-2002.

Internationalized domain names with Chinese characters may be registered at thelevel under the .cn top-level domain.

On 25 June 2010, ICANN approved the ownership of the internationalized country code top-level domains .中国 China in simplified Chinese characters, DNS develope xn--fiqs8s and .中國 China in traditional Chinese characters, DNS make believe xn--fiqz9s by CNNIC. These two TLDs were added to the DNS in July 2010.

CNNIC produced around this time Chinese domain names in .公司 ".com" in Chinese and .网络 ".net" in Chinese. However, these have not been recognized by ICANN yet and are only available via home domain name registrars.

Around 15 other generic domain denomination with Chinese characters have later been registered. See List of Internet top-level domains#Chinese characters.