The Hanoitimes - Vietnam Internet Network Information Centre (VNNIC) has granted iNet corporation a licence to provide domain dot vn (.vn) services, bringing the total number of domain dot vn providers in the country to sixteen.
VNNIC said with the licence, iNet will provide domains ending with dot vn (.vn) with extensions including com.vn, info.vn, gov.vn, edu.vn, int.vn, pro.vn, health.vn, biz.vn, ac.vn and net.vn.
The centre, a subsidiary of the Ministry of Information and Communications, said the new licence will help increase the number of domains ending in dot vn, which indicates the sovereignty of Vietnam on the Internet.
As many as 21,813 such domains were registered in the third quarter of this year, bringing the total to 219,000 and making Vietnam one of the Southeast Asian countries with the most domains.
The number, which registered an average annual growth rate of 172 per cent, was largely contributed by the country's three largest domain providers (PA Vietnam, FPT and Matbao).
Established in 2005, iNet is one of the dominant players in the country's IT sector, especially in software, websites and IT training.
