Managing Intellectual Property

Two ccTLDs for the price of one in Hong Kong

10 August 2009

James Nurton, Hong Kong

The operator of the .hk registry will offer existing registrants a free extra domain using a Chinese suffix, if and when ICANN introduces multi-alphabet country-code domains

Applicants can already apply for domain names in either Roman or Chinese characters in the .hk space, as they can in other country-code top-level domains (ccTLDs) in Chinese-speaking territories, such as .cn and .tw.

However, under existing rules, the final part of the domain – .hk – must be in Roman characters.

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