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Most Chinese festival domain names registered
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-12 15:34 Nearly all Internet domains
named after Chinese festivals have been registered, the People's Daily reported.
Over 40 traditional Chinese festivals have been registered as domain names,
including the Lantern Festival and the Double Ninety Festival, sources with the
China Internet Network Information Center were quoted by the paper as saying.
Especially since the Dragon Boat Festival (Duanwu Festival), a traditional
Chinese festival, was used by a company from the Republic of Korea as a domain
name (Duanwu.cn), the protection of China's traditional culture on the Internet
has become a hot topic, the paper said.
The names of minority nationality festivals have also been used,such as the
Water-Sprinkling Festival of the Dai ethnic group and Lesser Bairam of Hui
ethnic group, the paper said.
Foreign festivals with Chinese characteristics, including Christmas and Saint
Valentine's Day, have also been registered as domain names, the paper said.
International festivals like Children's Day and Labor Day, in Chinese
characters, also appear on the Internet as domain names, the paper added.
"The enthusiasm about registration of Chinese domain names is because, on the
one hand, the Chinese are beginning to realize the importance of the protection
of traditional Chinese culture on the Internet, and on the other hand, recognize
the value of domain names in Chinese as a kind of potential resource," experts
were quoted by the paper as saying.
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