HÀ NỘI — The Ministry of Information and Communications (MIC) has recently proposed a number of new regulations on Internet resource management, including the national domain name ".vn". Specifically, inheriting existing regulations, donating, contributing capital and inheriting the right to use the ".vn" domain name will be carried out in accordance with the law on property rights and other relevant regulations. The ".vn" domain name will be revoked if it is used against the State, violates national security, commits a violation of the law or does not pay maintenance fees. For the Vietnamese national domain name ".vn" granted by auction method of use rights, the compensation level is determined by the auction winning amount. Cumulatively registered ".vn" domain names reach 604,000, of which, nearly 19,000 ".vn" domain names have had their use rights transferred by the end of December last year.
