[governance] Can anyone surf to peking university?

[Joe Baptista]

Karl - I have no idea what your going on about - as usual.  In fact the site
you are a looking at is the English default site for Peking University.  The
site seen at http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/ is the same as
http://www.pku.edu.cn/ - the only difference is that one site is available
via an IANA TLD (.cn) and the other is available via a Chinese National TLD
(.xn--fiqs8s).  In fact in Chinese the proper URL for this is
http://北京大学.中国/ <http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/> and as you can see
uses Chinese characters.

This is not a surprise to ICANN nor any one else who has been paying
attention to China.  The Chinese National TLDs have existed since early 2005
- and were tested I think way back in 2003.

The only point I was making is that 300 millions people in China can see the
Chinese TLD system - the rest of the world under ICANN can't.  I don't even
thing the TLDA can see them.

cheers
joe baptista

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:09 PM, Karl E. Peters <kpeters at tldainc.org> wrote:

> Does the site you can see through your posted link look substantially
> different than this one (http://en.pku.edu.cn/ ) that came up through
> ASK.COM? If they are different, there is a story here. Otherwise, the
> ramification is the obvious for ICANN, it is ever more marginalized. Of
> course, that will come as a surprise only to ICANN. The rest of the
> world can see the writing on the wall...
>
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> > Subject: [governance] Can anyone surf to peking university?
> > From: Joe Baptista <baptista at publicroot.org>
> > Date: Mon, June 15, 2009 11:53 am
> > To: governance at lists.cpsr.org,  At-Large Worldwide
> > <at-large at atlarge-lists.icann.org>
> > This is the official URL for Peking University - it's in IDN
> > http://xn--1lq90ic7fzpc.xn--fiqs8s/
> > how many people here can surf to that URL?  I can see it.  but any one on
> > the ICANN root can't.  Chinese domains can only be seen in china or to
> those
> > outside china who see the chinese root system.
> > cheers
> > joe baptista
> > p.s. where is icann in this equation?
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