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ICANN announced the new top-level domain name lottery results. weibo and. Microblogs are very poor.

Internet microblogs has spread from the competition for users and published content to the grab of domain names, the portal of the Internet. Since the new top-level domain name was opened for registration in July last year, many enterprises have applied for the same domain name suffix from time to time. Among them, the most domestic users' attention is that both Sina and Tencent have applied for the new top-level domain name ". weibo. A few days ago, with the announcement of the new top-level domain name application order list by ICANN, the Internet name and digital distribution agency, the prelude to the competition for ". weibo" is about to begin.
By the time of publication, ICANN's official website had published a list of 1917 new top-level domain names in the order of accepting applications. Not surprisingly, according to ICANN's previous statement, in order to make the public more convenient to use the Internet and increase participation channels, international domain name (IDN) applications will be given priority. Among the top ten selected, including "Catholicism", "Shangri-La" and "CITIC", most of them applied for gTLD using non-Latin characters (such as Chinese, Arabic or Japanese).
According to the results of the draw, among the 1924 valid applications, ". Shangri-La" ranked 21st, ". CITIC" ranked 5th, ". Yihaodian" ranked 19th, ". Volkswagen" ranked 36th, ". ICBC" ranked 41st ...... This also shows the recognition of domestic enterprises to the brand value of domain names.
worth mentioning that the Chinese ". Weibo" applied by Sina and Tencent ranked 45th, while the English ". Weibo" applied by them ranked 344th to be processed, which once again reflects ICANN's priority for internationalized domain names (IDN). Although the sequence number determined by drawing lots will determine the release time of the initial evaluation results of the new top-level domain, because both apply for ". weibo" and ". Weibo" at the same time, then, who can apply successfully in the end, let us wait and see.
In addition, in this on-site lottery, ". ICBC" ranked 41st, and the sequence number will also be used for pre-authorized test appointments and agreement signing. ICANN said there were about 20 pre-authorized test appointments a week, which in turn led to 20 contracts. In this way, ". ICBC" will be accepted as soon as the evaluation results are expected to be put into use in the first half of next year.
certain is that once the application is successful, ICBC will bring great benefits to its applicants. First, the successful application of ". ICBC" will be the protection of the enterprise's trademark;www.icbc.com,www.icbcis shorter and easier to remember. Third, self-control, ". ICBC" applicants can set their own domain name registration policies to prevent phishing websites and improve network security. Finally, ". ICBC" provides an innovative service, that is, combining its own business and proposing differentiated innovative services.
, as the largest domain name registrar in China, Wanwang provides professional new top-level domain name registration application services for ICBC, Patriot and other enterprises. Song Yingqiao, head of its domain name business department, said that the opening of the new top-level domain is of great significance to the development of the Internet. It not only expands the space for enterprises to choose domain names, but also contains unlimited business opportunities, moreover, the new top-level domain name is combined with transformative technologies such as mobile Internet, cloud computing and Internet of Things, which will give birth to many new business forms and business models.