While there are now well over 1,000 domain extensions (TLDs) on the web, one of the world's most important markets, China, has fully accredited only 32 of those. The latest to make the exceptionally short list are TLD Registry's .在线 (Dot Chinese Online) and .中文网 (Dot Chinese Website) extensions. The company got the good news over the weekend from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), the state agency of the Chinese government that regulates the Internet from within China, after MIIT gave TLD Registry's Beijing-based WFOE (wholly foreign-owned entity) company full accreditation status.

The accreditation means that Chinese citizens and organizations who register .在线 and .中文网 can now obtain an Internet Content Provider (ICP) license that must be displayed in the footer of any website hosted within China. Non-accredited TLDs can only be hosted outside of China. For domain developers, being able to host a site within China greatly reduces the risk of getting blocked or shut down without notification due to the lack of a valid ICP license. It also means that foreign companies who wish to market their products and services on a website within China will experience much faster access to their sites by Chinese citizens, due to their websites now having the option of resolving from a host inside of China, thus bypassing the firewall and other latency issues that can block access and sales.