According to the information disclosed at 38th International Public ICANN Meeting held in Brussels, "中国" (China) domain name has passed all the reviews for an international application, and was eventually endorsed by the ICANN Council. The development means "中国" has become an accredited international domain name. CNNIC has completed the technical preparation for upgrading the domain name. Netizens will be able to directly access the website having a domain name of "中国", starting from August 2010. By then, netizens will be allowed to register a website in Chinese.

It is also reported that the domain name of "中国" has been endorsed by the ICANN Council in both traditional or simplified style, which means either "北京大學.中國" or "北京大学.中国" can be accessible to the website of the university. Meanwhile, the English punctuation "." is exchangeable with its Chinese counterpart "." , allowing both "工业和信息化部.中国" and "工业和信息化部.中国" to reach their destined website.

Up to date, 90% of Chinese government agencies, both at central and provincial levels, 95% of Chinese news media websites, 90% of major Chinese universities, more than 50% of the top 100 Chinese businesses, and more than 40% of the top 500 Chinese businesses have registered their domain names under "中国" in China.