Definition on Chinese Domain Name

After the domain name registration for the Chinese character approved, the domain name holder/registrant could use a corresponding domain name with the Traditional Chinese character and the Simplified Chinese character. The Chinese Variant Table is available on the MONIC website.

Below is the comparative method on Traditional Chinese character and the Simplified Chinese character:

The Chinese Variant Table is combined by the table of China and the table of Taiwan (referred to pg.545), and is divided into two parts: Simplified Chinese character and Traditional Chinese character. Each part is separated by three columns: “CodePoint”, “Preferred” and “Other”.

An example of Chinese domain name “網絡” to correspond with its Simplified Chinese character, first direct to “CodePoint” in the Chinese Variant Table and search for a row “網” and “絡”, it will then correspond with the specific row “Preferred” as "网" & "络", these are the corresponding Simplified Chinese character for “網絡”. The same method of corresponding Traditional Chinesecharacter mentioned above, could apply to the table of Taiwan.

On the other side, after the domain name “網絡.mo” approved, one could own the domains "网络.mo" and "網絡.mo" at the same time.

Last Modified: 08/04/2014