More than 36 per cent of newly registered domains last month were related to digital transformation, reflecting the growth of online innovation in the nation.
Entitled "Creating digital identities with national domain names.vn", the programme is to help local businesses and people build their digital identities and building brands on the internet.
The Ministry of Information and Telecommunications has issued a circular with new provisions which are expected to resources to develop the domain name market.
A total number of national registered domain names with “.vn” reached 453,979 as of last month, an increase of 9.33 per cent over the same period last year.
The availability of a series of new foreign domain names in the Vietnamese market is offering more choices to local companies and opening up new opportunities for domain name registrars.
The Ministry of Information and Communications signed Decision No. 427/QD-BTTTT approving the list of Vietnamese domain names “.vn” licensed through auction.
There are currently about one million Vietnamese domain names issued and Viet Nam is among the top countries in terms of internationalised domain name distribution in the world, according to Government portal chinhphu.vn.
Customers who want to use Vietnamese domain names can register through registrars starting this Saturday instead of registering with the Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) like before.
Viet Nam ranked first among the ASEAN countries for the number
of country code top-level domains registered, with 318,812 domain names
added by June 30.
A circular jointly issued by the Ministry of Science and Technology and
the Ministry of Information and Communications is necessary to regulate
domain name registrations tightly, a conference was told.
The Vietnam Internet Network Information Center (VNNIC) celebrated the
registration of the one millionth domain name written in Vietnamese on
August 25.
Over 90,000 new .vn domains were activated in the first 11 months of
this year, bringing the total number of national domain names to
263,900, according to the Viet Nam Internet Network Information Centre
(VNNIC)