Following our announcement of final contracing with ICANN in Beijing on September 10th, the essential new Chinese TLDs are making their way though the next mandatory stages.
Today at the New gTLD Roadshow in Taipei, TLD Registry's Pinky Brand announced that our next major milestone, Pre-Delegation Testing, will begin on November 4.
Pinky also announced that Dot Chinese Online and Dot Chinese Website integration into the Trademark Clearinghouse has begun .
Both of our Chinese TLDs are considered 'low risk' as it relates to ICANN's 'Name Collision' question. However we are still reliant on ICANN in understanding when our TLDs will be delegated by IANA, and thus the timing of our Sunrise, Land Rush and General Registration periods.
Once we have achieved delegation into the global DNS root, we may issue a mandatory 30-day notice for our Sunrise period. At that time we’ll have a clear set of dates to announce.
According to current estimates, we should be able to achieve our Sunrise in January 2014, our Landrush in March and our General Availability in April!