TWNIC

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Type:	Non-profit
Industry:	Registrar
Founded:	Taiwan, 1999
Headquarters:	4F-2, No.9, Sec. 2, Roosevelt Rd Taipei, 100, Taiwan, R.O.C
Country:	Taiwan
Email:	service [at] twnic.net.tw
Website:	twnic.net.tw
Key People
Lai Fei-Pei, Chairman Liang Ming-Cheng, Executive Director

The Taiwan Network Information Center (TWNIC) is a non-profit organization; it was officially funded by the Directorate General Telecommunications of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, and the Computer Society of the Republic of China, on December 29, 1999.^[1]

TWNIC provides the registration of .com.tw, .net.tw, .org.tw and .idv.tw.

In 2007, ICANN and TWNIC hosted a meeting called "Toward the New Era of Internet", focusing on internationalized domain names, and Internet security key.^[2] In 2010, TWNIC conducted a seminar on "Broadband Policy and Development" for the Taipei IT Month.^[3]

Accredited Registrars

TWNIC has authorized the following registrars to sell its extensions:

• Asia Pacific Online Service Inc.(APOL)
• PC home Online Co. Ltd.
• Chunghwa Telecom Co. Ltd (HiNet)
• Digital United Inc. (SeedNet)
• TISNet Technology Inc.(TISNET)
• Net-Chinese Co., Ltd

History

• March 1994 to June 1996- TWNIC was setup as 2 year experimental program.

• June 1996 to April 1998- operation of the Taiwan Network Information Center came under the Computer Society of the ROC.

• April 1998 to December 1999- The NII decided that the Directorate-General of Telecommunication was responsible for TWNIC and it was finally registered on the 29th of December,1999. ^[4]

Committees and Departments

• Domain Name Committee
• IP Address and Protocol Committee
• International Affairs Committee
• Network Security Committee
• Domain Name Service department
• IP address and Protocol Service Department
• International Affairs and Public Relations Department
• Technology Support Department
• Administration Support Department

Core Business

• Domain Name Registration Service
  • English Domain Name Registration Service
  • Chinese Domain Name Registration Service
  • Domain Name Registry/Registrar Service
  • The Task Force for the dispute resolution policy for Domain Name
• IP Address Allocation Service
• Autonomous System Number Service

Results of the 2006 .tw Domain Name Use Survey

In 2006, TWNIC conducted a survey on the domain name use of .tw. The survey gives an insight into the trends in Taiwan^[5] The subjects of the survey are companies, organizations and individuals using a com.tw, org.tw, net.tw, idv.tw, game.tw, ebiz.tw, club.tw, ascii.tw or IDN.tw domain.

• 78% of those surveyed registered their domain names by themselves
• 44.8% of those surveyed have used the service provided by registrars.
• 66.4% of those surveyed were satisfied with the registration procedure, customer service and the registration service.
• Email is the most popular service.

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