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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 17 (Reuters) - VeriSign Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN) on Friday downplayed its simmering dispute with the Chinese government over who has the right to register emerging Web site addresses in the Chinese language.

VeriSign's Network Solutions subsidiary launched a test of a multilingual system late last week that allows users to register domain names in Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters. The same week, the Chinese Internet Network Information Center, a government-supported body, introduced a competing Chinese character registration system.

Both groups have reportedly registered hundreds of thousands of domain names in a few days.

CNNIC officials say their standard is superior because the ".com" and ".net" extensions at the end of Chinese domain names appear in Chinese characters. By contrast, VeriSign's system forces the extension, such as .com, or .net, to still be written in Roman characters.

"Chinese domain names should be entirely in Chinese," said Mao Wei, director of CNNIC. "Adding a '.com' is a temporary solution."

The Chinese government says only Chinese firms will be allowed to grant Chinese-language domain names. But VeriSign says the Chinese government's statement still leaves open the possibility of each party operating separate databases of Web site names.
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