On January 17, 2008, the CNNIC issued the 21st Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China. According to data, by December 31, 2007, the total amount of netizens in China had reached 210 million.

On January 22, 2008, the CNNIC held the Fifth China Internet Network Address Resource Registration Service Conference, and had full communication with registrars with respect to the management, service and promotion experience and developmental prospect of Chinese Internet address resources.

On February 19, 2008, Peter Dengate Thrush, Chairman of the Council of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), visited the CNNIC.

On March 3, 2008, the Youth League Working Committee of the Central Government Organs gave the CNNIC the title of Model Youth of the Central Government Organs in 2007.

On March 28, 2008, the CNNIC issued the Survey Report on Rural Internet in 2008. According to data, by December 31, 2007, the amount of rural netizens in China had reached 52.62 million. The annual growth rate had reached 127.7%, far higher than the growth rate of urban netizens, 38.2%.

On May 8, 2008, the CNNIC held “Olympic Network, CN Convoy—2008 Olympic National Domain Name Security Guarantee Mobilization Conference”.

In May 2008, the CNNIC adopted a series of measures such as extending the due time of national domain names to guarantee earthquake relief.

On July 16, 2008, the CNNIC started the “Global Updating Activity of Chinese Domain Names” to guide users to successfully realize the updating to the “中国” age.

On July 18, 2008, the CNNIC took lead to found the “China Anti-Phishing Website Union”, established a rapid resolution mechanism of stopping the CN domain name resolution of phishing websites, and constructed a creditable website.

On July 24, 2008, according to the 22nd Statistical Survey Report on the Internet Development in China published by the CNNIC in Beijing, the amounts of netizens, broadband netizens and national domain names all ranked the first in the world.

On August 15, 2008, the CNNIC publicized the results of the first Credit Standing Ranking of Internet Website Service Organizations, and 36 CN domain name address service organizations won “star logos”.

In September 2008, the CNNIC successfully completed Olympic security guarantee, fulfilled the promise of “Olympic network, CN convoy”, and won praise from the Olympic Organizing Committee.

In September 2008, the international Internet technical standard development organization, the IETF, formally issued the SMTP Development Support Internationalized Mail Address as RFC5336. Yao Jiankang and Mao Wei of the CNNIC authored the standard. This was the third IETF standard developed by the CNNIC.

In October 2008, the Beijing Olympic Organizing Committee gave the CNNIC the honorary title of “News Publicity Contribution Award in the Beijing Olympics and Paralympics”, praising the CNNIC for making highly effective efforts for guaranteeing the stable operation of the domain name of the Olympic official website and the rights and interests of Olympic champions’ domain names and their applications.

On November 25, 2008, the new CNNIC Steering Committee meeting was held at the CNNIC, which evaluated and guided the work of the CNNIC in 2008.

In December 2008, the results of credit standing ranking of Internet address service organizations for which the CNNIC served as the executive supervisory organization, were announced, and 40 CN domain name service organizations won “star logo” in 2008.