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.VN Hits Half a Million

The number of .vn domain names had passed the half million mark at the end of October according to the Việt Nam Internet Resources Report 2019 published last week with the total number as of 31 October being 501,027.

These 501,027 .vn domain names represents almost half (49.0%) of all domain names registered in the country according to the report, with 49.4% for legacy gTLDs and the remaining 1.6% for new gTLDs. The 49% figure for .vn in Việt Nam ranks the country somewhere in the middle of its peers in the region with .tw (Taiwan), .kz (Kazakhstan) and .uz (Uzbekistan) all having over 90% market share within the country while .th (Thailand) is less than 10% being the extremes of the 16 profiled.

There was also a reform of administrative procedures and supplementing regulations to resolve some practical situations such as electronic records, marking a major improvement in the management of .vn during the year.

The major cities of Ho Chi Minh and Ha Noi accounted for the majority of .vn domain name registrations with 189,336 and 174,171 respectively, while no other city or town managed more than 10,000.

There are 13 second level domains with .com.vn the largest with 34.56% of .vn domain names, .edu.vn (4.24%) and .net.vn (1.77%) being the only 2LDs with more than a 1% market share, while registrations at the second level accounted for 57.25%.

According to the report from Việt Nam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC), the number of IPv4 addresses allocated to Việt Nam reached 16,001,024 at the end of October, ranking the south east Asian country second in the region, eighth in Asia and 29th globally.

Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC)’s statistics showed that the use of IPv6 for Việt Nam reaches approximately 40 per cent, ranking second in ASEAN and eighth globally with more than 21,000,000 IPv6 users by October.

In their annual report, VNNIC note a number of other activities for 2019 including signing a new partnership agreement with CCTLD.RU to strengthen the cooperation in management and ensure the security of national critical internet infrastructure system.

There are also 14 registrars for Việt Nam’s country code top-level domain while registrants of 3,237 domain names have utilised VNNIC’s Registry Lock and 170 domains are made more secure having DNSSEC enabled.

The Việt Nam Internet Resources Report 2019 published by the Việt Nam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) is available for download in Vietnamese only here [pdf].

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.VN Showcased in Vietnamese Postage Stamps

dotVN_postage_stampsOn the occasion of APEC Economic Leader’s Week, the Ministry of Information and Communications officially released Vietnam’s APEC postage stamps 2017 on November 6th 2017. Presented in this special postage printing, Viet Nam ccTLD with message “.VN enhances Vietnamese brands” expresses a desire to develop and integrate into a technological era.

Vietnam’s APEC postage stamps are not only the special communications to commemorate the second time Viet Nam playing host to the APEC, but also become a priceless gift to remind beautiful Viet Nam that is gradually innovating and integrating all aspects. In line with the theme of APEC 2017 “creating new dynamism, fostering a shared future”, “.VN” country code top level domain name is a factor contributing to Viet Nam’s economics and helping Vietnamese enterprises develop and gain customers’ trust.

In technological era, that Internet users is growing very fast created new online business trend. Therefore, enterprises need new effective business model and marketing solutions. A memorable domain names combining with creative and professional websites are what they need to make the good first impression to customers.

In fact, “.VN” has been becoming an implied geographical indication. Website registered “.VN” ccTLD could benefit from search engines for country-based search results depending on the IP addresses of users. Besides, using “.VN” has secured the safety and sufficiency for the Internet community in Viet Nam with more updated domain services. In many ways, “.VN” seems to be a guarantee stamp for Vietnamese good products

Since 2011, “.VN” has kept stably the first position in the number of registered domains in the ASEAN region. By October 31st 2017, the cumulative number of “.VN” domain name registration reached 422,601 domains as well as reaching the 7th place in Asia’s top 10 ccTLDs with highest number of registrations. This achievement reflects the continuing development of “.VN” among the global domain industry and the prospect of a promising future of “.VN” domain name.

Being presented in Vietnam’s APEC postage stamps 2017, “.VN” demonstrates its position in the Internet map that symbolizes for Viet Nam integrating but not dissolving in the Internet.

This VNNIC news release was sourced from:
https://vnnic.vn/node/1793

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Once Free .VN Domain Names Now Available Through Registrars

VietnamNIC_VNNIC_logoRegistrants of internationalised domain names for Vietnam’s ccTLD, .vn, can now register their domains through registrars instead of only through the registry as before. The change took place on 15 April.

“The participation in the Vietnamese domain name market of registrars promises a vibrant Vietnamese domain name market in which users will have more choices of providers,” a VNNIC representative said.

.VN internationalised domain names were launched in March 2007 and from April 2011 .vn domains were free to register, which saw a boom in registrations with the total today standing at 1,071,163 and around 290,000 of these are active.

The free registration period ended on 1 January this year.