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Dong Thap has first office for domain name “.vn” registration

An office for registration of national domain name “.vn” has been inaugurated in Dong Thap province, becoming the first of its kind in the Mekong Delta locality.
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Dong Thap (VNA) – An office for registration of nationaldomain name “.vn” has been inaugurated in Dong Thap province, becoming thefirst of its kind in the Mekong Delta locality.

The facility is located at the provincial Information and CommunicationTechnology (ICT) Centre. Organisations and individuals can alsoregister the domain name online via website https://dtict.vn/.

According to Doan Thanh Binh, Director of the provincial Department of Information and Communications, said that thelaunching of the facility is an opening activity in the implementation of thedigital transformation roadmap of Dong Thap, thus raising publicawareness, promoting the Internet resources and affirming the nationalsovereignty on the cyber space.

He held that compared to international domain names, thenational domains name of “.vn” is safer, easier to recognize and more reliable.

According to the department, DongThap has seen the registration of 838 domain names “.vn” and about 1,204international domain names. Meanwhile, the locality is home to 4,244businesses, he said, adding that the ratio of businesses using the domain name “.vn”has been very low, leading to risks of conflicts on the cyber space amidgrowing e-commerce activities.

The inauguration of the facility is expected to help businesses to register forthe domain name in an easier manner, thus improving the level of recognition oftheir trademarks and make them searchable on the Internet, and improving theprovince’s indexes in digital transformation, e-commerce and online shopping./.
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