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BEIJING, March 8 -- China'S top Internet address registration agency has slashed the price of domain names ending with .cn to win users from the ".com" service, whose server is overseas.

The China Internet Network Information Center, or CNNIC, said the promotion is for the sake of national information security and to increase Internet use in the world's second-largest Web market.

"Wider use of the .cn service will improve our Internet independency and it's safer for Chinese Website operators," said government-backed CNNIC in a statement yesterday.

China had 4.1 million domain names by the end of 2006. Nearly half of them ended with .com that depend on servers in the United States, while 44 percent were using the .cn service. The rest were mostly .net and .org sites, according to CNNIC's annual report.

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