A report released by ICANN shows that in China, the number of registrations of CN domain names has overwhelmingly exceeded that of COM domain names.

CN has now become the first choice for most Chinese when they register domain names for their enterprises. The ICANN report says that the total number of registrations of CN domain names in 2003 reached 340,000, an increase of 89.4% over the previous year. The increase of COM registrations was less than one tenth of that figure.