Customers who want to use Vietnamese domain names can register through registrars instead of registering with the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) from April 15.
Hanoi (VNA) - Customers who want touse Vietnamese domain names can register through registrars instead ofregistering with the Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre(VNNIC) from April 15.
The participation in the Vietnamese domain namemarket of registrars promises a vibrant Vietnamese domain name market in whichusers will have more choices of providers, a VNNIC representative emphasised.
The participation of registrars would createfavourable conditions for customers to easily register and maintain theVietnamese domain names, according to the centre. To create a competitive environment whileproviding Vietnamese domain name services, registrars must complete thetechnical process and improve the quality of their services, VNNIC said.
VNNIC’s Vietnamese domain names wereofficially launched in March 2007. The free of charge registrationperiod, starting from April 2011, marked a boom in registration.
Following nearly six years of free registration, thereare currently more than one million Vietnamese domain names registered on thesystem, of which, nearly 290,000 domain names have been put in use.
Vietnamese domain name owners have to pay anannual fee of 20,000 VND (nearly 1 USD) for a domain name from January1 this year in accordance with the Ministry of Finance’sCircular 208/2016/TT-BTC, dated November 10 last year, on collection,payment, management and usage mechanism of fees and levies of national domainname “.vn” and Internet Protocol.
With the State and the Government building anentirely Vietnamese information environment on the internet, the fee collectionwas to support administrative management and technical system operations forVietnamese domain names similar to traditional domain names, and not forcommercial activities.
Other value-added services will be adhered to byregistrars and customers.
Information on registrars of “.vn” domains is available at //nhadangky.vn.-VN
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