New Chinese Top-Level Domains

[newsiness]

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=10411&slug=INTERNET-POLICY-MII-DOMAIN NAME-DNS

For users to access the new domain names, their ISP must be configured to use the new Chinese root server. Presumably Chinese ISPs will do so, but outside of China the vast majority of ISPs use the ICANN controlled network of root servers.

This means that outside China, the new domains will not be accessible without configuration changes. These could be made by the user, by configuring their computer to use the Chinese root server in addition to their ISP provided one. Alternatively the ISP could add the Chinese root server to their own DNS configuration file, which would allow all their customers to have access.

This assumes that China permits connection to their root server from outside of China, and in the case of user-side configuration changes, that the user's ISP doesn't block DNS (sometimes done for security reasons).

 

[cache]

the quoted article did not mention the root server, where did you get that information?

http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=10411&slug=INTERNET-POLICY-MII-DOMAIN NAME-DNS

For users to access the new domain names, their ISP must be configured to use the new Chinese root server. Presumably Chinese ISPs will do so, but outside of China the vast majority of ISPs use the ICANN controlled network of root servers.

This means that outside China, the new domains will not be accessible without configuration changes. These could be made by the user, by configuring their computer to use the Chinese root server in addition to their ISP provided one. Alternatively the ISP could add the Chinese root server to their own DNS configuration file, which would allow all their customers to have access.

This assumes that China permits connection to their root server from outside of China, and in the case of user-side configuration changes, that the user's ISP doesn't block DNS (sometimes done for security reasons).