The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has said that come 2009, Chinese letters will be allowed in top level domains (TLDs). For web site owners, that means you had better get patching your site to allow e-mail addresses containing Chinese characters.
China has already got ahold of “.中国”, which is Chinese for ... China.
Those who deal largely with people in China will want to get used to using Character Map.