2011 Internet Trend SeminarTWNIC's 2011 Internet Trend Seminar was held on March 28 ~ 30, focusing on the crucial Internet development in 2011 and the challenge encountered in the new IPv6 era, including the exhaustion of IPv4, the promotion of IPv6, information security and "IDN.台灣 " Chinese Domain Names.

Advised by NICI, MOTC and NCC, the seminar was co-hosted by Taiwan's leading Internet communities, including government departments, NGOs and private sectors.

NCC-CERT formally launched for service.

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For the opening keynotes on March 29, Mr. Tien-Lai Teng, the Director General of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, was invited to address on "Future Development And Trends of Taiwan's Internet"; Mr. Chung Laung Liu, the Academician of Academia Sinica, encouraged the participants to use creativity to inspire more innovative Internet applications with the topic of "Invention, Innovation, Creativity: 3 is a nice number". Moreover, to address the IPv4 exhaustion, Mr. Paul Wilson, the Director General of Asia Pacific Network Information Centre, was especially invited to address on future applications in the coming IPv6 era. In the opening, the NCC-CERT was also formally launched for service. In the future, Taiwan's Internet will be more comprehensively guarded.

The 3-day seminar also included sessions of information security protection, free IPv6 training courses, current information security development status in Asia Pacific, Taiwan's IPv6 deployment and technical application, Internet brand identification and the cloud computing. For information on the seminar, please visit www.seminar2011.twnic.tw.

NCC Commissioner Shieh-Wen Wei

APNIC Director General Paul Wilson

Academia Sinica Academician Chung Laung Liu

MOTC Director General Tien-Lai Teng

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Taiwan IPv6 Day Starts the New Internet Era

Facing the challenge of IPv4 exhaustion, TWNIC joined "World IPv6 Day" trial program and held "Taiwan IPv6 Day"

event on June 8 to invite the local Internet communities to join the program. TWNIC worked with major Internet service

providers, including Chunghwa Telecom, Far Eastone, Taiwan Cellular Corporation, APOL, SONET, TISNET, Net-Chinese, TANet, National Center for High-Performance Computing, Academia Sinica, Yahoo!

Taiwan, yam.com, FunTown and i-Part to invite users to experience services provided by IPv6 websites, so as to accelerate the transition of various Internet services to IPv6 networks.

On April 15, 2011, Asia Pacific Network Information Centre formally announced that "the APNIC pool reached the Final /8 IPv4 address block, bringing us to Stage Three of IPv4 exhaustion in the Asia Pacific", and encouraged its members to act on IPv6. TANet, ISPs and government network have all already been actively deploying and testing IPv6 in Taiwan. National Information and Communications Initiative (NICI) has also mastered relevant situations to the exhaustion of IPv4 and invited all government departments and agencies to address them. All e-government websites will also provide IPv6 services. Therefore, the entire Taiwan's Internet communities will be able to steadily move forward to IPv4 and IPv6 co-existence environment.

To support "Taiwan IPv6 Day" event, the ISPs and ICPs have been actively involved in the preparation works. Users are encouraged to connect to IPv6 network and will be given the chance to win prizes as long as long as they connect to and visit the Taiwan IPv6 Day event website on June 8. For those encountering IPv6-related problems during the event, there will be technical experts on site to provide assistance. For more information on Taiwan IPv6 Day, please visit ipv6day.tw.

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Serial Activity 1 on Taiwan IPv6 Day: IPv6 Seeds 100TWNIC will recruit 100 techies and students who are specialized in IP networks and provide IPv6 technology training courses from June to September this year. Qualified participants will be given IPv6 seeds 100 certificates. Outstanding participants will also be included as assistant for TWNIC IPv6 training courses and expert candidates for the technical service team. For information on the program, please visit ipv6day.tw/16seed.html.

Serial Activity 2 on Taiwan IPv6 Day: Visit-to-win Contest On the day of Taiwan IPv6 Day, users can join the prize draw by using IPv6 accesses to connect to the event site, clicking and visiting the recommended IPv6 web sites as well as collecting five passwords. The prizes include iPad, portable hard drives and gift coupons. For more information, please visit ipv6day.tw/25ipv6gameexplain.html.

Serial Activity 3 on Taiwan IPv6 Day: Free idv.tw Registration To encourage users to experience IPv6-enabled web sites and various Internet services, TWNIC will provide free idv.tw domain name registration. Users will benefit from it as long as they complete the IPv6-enabled website setup and domain name resolution by September 30 this year. For more information, please visit ipv6day.tw/23website.html.

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TWNIC-accredited Registrars Support IPv6 in DNS Hosting ServicesTo enable higher integrity in the IPv6 environment and allow users to use IPv6 resolution smoothly without setting up DNS by themselves, TWNIC has worked with its registrars to open up value-added domain name services, such as DNS hosting or web-page redirection to support IPv6 setups. At the present stage, AAAA records is now available for IPv6 setup in the DNS hosting service as it is more commonly used by users. In the future, DNS settings in either .tw or .台灣 domain names will be comprehensively upgraded to support IPv4/IPv6 dual stack.

2010 Taiwan ISP Yearbook PublishedTWNIC has published Taiwan ISP Yearbook each year since 2002, and 2011 has been the 10th year. On March 25th, TWNIC published "2010 Taiwan ISP Yearbook", introducing detailed information on the current status of Taiwan's Internet service business, infrastructures and future development trends of various Internet technologies. It also provides in-depth reports especially on the up-to-date IPv6 deployment status in the industrial and academia fields in Taiwan and the most popular topic of mobile Internet at present.

"IDN.台灣 " Chinese Domain Names Make Websites More Eye-Catching".台灣 " Chinese domain names mean that users can directly type in Chinese domain names on the address bar to visit websites, such as 交通部 .台灣 , 台網中心 .台灣 or 盧彥勳 .台灣 . They can be named using company names, personal names or nicknames in Chinese, and can also be combined with promoted products or services to impress consumers. ".台灣 " Chinese domain names are very suitable for managing the Chinese-speaking market. They are simple and easy to memorize, and more effective to be used for promoting products or services.

It is very advantageous to apply for Chinese domains, with which users can directly find their own websites better than with search engines. Besides, ".台灣 " Chinese domain names are interoperable in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese. After a registered ". 台灣 " Chinese domain name is activated, the corresponding ".tw" Chinese domain name will be automatically acquired.

Legally registered companies or legal/natural persons can register ".台灣 " Chinese domain names on a first-come, first-served basis. Online registration is available at any TWNIC-accredited registrars.

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TWNIC has conducted the Taiwan Internet usage survey each year since 2002, and 2011 has been the 10th year. According to the latest survey, up until March 21, 2011, the population of Internet users in the Taiwan was about 16.95 million which were about 730,000 more than 2010. The population of Internet users aged 12 and above, was 15.39 million, of which the percentage was 75.69%, and increase of 3.13%. The number of broadband Internet users aged 12 and above was 14.35 million, of which the penetration rate was 70.58%, an increase of 3.37% from 2010. 35.88% of them have used wireless Internet, and 18.82% of them have used mobile Internet. The percentage of household Internet use in Taiwan was up to 79.77% with nearly 73% (5.69 million) of households using broadband.

Internet usage behavior of Taiwan's Internet users was also included in this survey. It is discovered that Internet users' dependency in using Internet community services has increased. "Role-Playing" is the highest in percentage for online gaming types of Internet users. In addition, the main reason for Internet users to use online shopping is the price factor.

2011 Survey on Internet Usage in Taiwan

11,598,787

13,801,867

12,789,114

13,268,59213,563,102

14,188,292

14,669,915

15,389,527

11,000,000

12,000,000

13,000,000

14,000,000

15,000,000

16,000,000

2004.01 2005.01 2006.01 2007.01 2008.01 2009.01 2010.01 2011.01

Annual Growth in Population of Internet Users (aged 12 and above) in Taiwan

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According TWNIC's latest Taiwan Internet Connectivity Bandwidth Survey, the total bandwidth of Taiwan's international connectivity bandwidth has reached 525,588 Mbps up to the end of March this year, which has increased 32,576 Mbps compared to the last quarter with a 6.6% growth rate. The United States is the main country of Internet connection with Taiwan (263,518 Mbps), followed by Japan (84,819Mbps) and Hong Kong (83,068 Mbps). International Internet connectivity bandwidth for HiNet, NCIC and TWGATE is 276,077 Mbps, 69,218 Mbps and 68,836 Mbps respectively, making them the top 3 in Taiwan. For local interconnection bandwidth of domestic ISPs, NCIC, TFN, HiNet, TWIX, TANet, CNS-KBT, TWAREN, SONET, ASNet and TPIX are the top 10 ISPs.

Taiwan Internet Connectivity Bandwidth Survey 2011 Q1

223,701

222,488 235,096252,237

264,669

292,710

331,283

363,077411,590

426,654 493,312

525,888

10.05%

0.55%

5.09%

7.29%

4.93%

10.59%

13.18%

9.60%

13.36%

3.66%

15.62%

6.60%

0%

4%

8%

12%

16%

200,000

50.00%

40.00%

30.00%

20.00%

10.00%

0.00%

400,000

600,000

2008.06

United States JapanHong Kong China

SingaporeSouth Korea

MalaysiaUnited Kingdom

The NetherlandsThailand

2008.09 2008.12 2009.03 2009.06 2009.09 2009.12 2010.03 2010.06 2010.09 2010.12 2011.03

Quarterly Growth in Taiwan's Int'l Connectivity Bandwidth

Top 10 Countries of Internet Connection with Taiwan

Int'l Connectivity Bandwidth (Mbps)

Growth Rate(%)

50.11%

16.13% 15.80%12.18%

2.35% 1.76% 0.81% 0.42% 0.14% 0.11%

501,6 78

448,848 450,048 451,403 454,884

458,159

505,042

503,109

498,347 497,475 499,472

499,831

440,000

450,000

460,000

470,000

480,000

490,000

500,000

510,000

2010.052010.06

2010.072010.08

2010.092010.10

2010.112010.12

2011.012011.02

2011.032011.04

Monthly Growth in .tw/.台灣 Domain Names

Types of .tw/.台灣 Domain Names Registered as of 30th April 2011

129,650 130,294

129,109 129,713 128,333 129,226

130,450

135,848

144,415

137,446

136,578 137,423

120,000

130,000

140,000

150,000

2010.052010.06

2010.072010.08

2010.09 2010.102010.11

2010.122011.01

2011.022011.03

2011.04

Monthly Growth in WWW Servers

gov.tw; 2,110 ; 0.42%

net.tw; 1,795 ; 0.36%

網路.tw; 1,475 ; 0.30%

club.t

w; 468

; 0.09

%

edu.tw; 466 ; 0.09%

game.tw; 288 ; 0.06%ebiz.tw; 129 ; 0.03%

商業.tw; 117,544 ; 23.52%

ASCII.tw; 70,567 ; 14.12%

IDN.

tw ;

39,6

78 ;

7.94

%

IDN.台灣

; 39,6

78 ; 7

.94%

org.tw; 13,251 ; 2.65%

組織.tw; 7,071 ; 1.41%

com.tw; 180,832 ; 36.18%

idv.tw; 24,479 ; 4.90%

15,557,053 15,780,772

16,119,529 16,374,122

16,946,164

17,762,525 17,744,674

18,546,595

19,803,327

15,000,000

16,000,000

17,000,000

18,000,000

19,000,000

20,000,000

2010.052010.06

2010.072010.08

2010.092010.10 2010.11

2010.122011.01

2011.022011.03

2011.04

Monthly Growth in Internet Hosts

15,561,555

15,592,263

15,530,766

107,584 107,840 109,888 110,680 110,681 110,681

111,209

116,697

121,049

125,145 126,329

130,205

100,000

110,000

120,000

130,000

140,000

2010.052010.06

2010.072010.08

2010.092010.10 2010.11

2010.122011.01

2011.022011.03

2011.04

Monthly Growth in IPv4 Address Allocations (/24)

2,309 2,309

2,311

2,310

2,312

2,313

2,314

2,315 2,315 2,315 2,315

2,316

2,305

2,310

2,315

2,320

2010.052010.06

2010.072010.08

2010.092010.10

2010.112010.12

2011.012011.02

2011.032011.04

Monthly Growth in IPv6 Address Allocations (/32)

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