(1) E-commerce law takes the business behavior of businessmen as the standard.

(2) E-commerce law has the natural characteristics of globalization across any national boundaries and regions. These two points are the characteristics of commercial law.

As a new field of commercial law, in addition to the above characteristics, e-commerce law has specific characteristics compared with other commercial legal systems:

1. Procedural: E-commerce law, as a transaction form law, is a procedural norm in substantive law, which mainly solves the formal problems of transactions and generally does not directly involve the specific contents of transactions. The form of electronic transaction refers to the specific electronic communication means used by the parties; The content of the transaction is the interests enjoyed by both parties to the transaction, which is manifested in certain rights and obligations.

2. Technicality: In e-commerce law, many legal norms are directly or indirectly evolved from technical norms. The coercive force of technical specifications stems from its objective regularity, which is the main source of contemporary natural law. The ideal empirical method can only accept it, but not violate it.

3. Openness: From the perspective of the principle of civil and commercial law, e-commerce law is a legal system for expressing meaning by means of data telecommunications, which has various forms and is still developing. Therefore, we must treat any technical means and information media with an open attitude and establish open norms so that all ideas and skills conducive to the development of e-commerce can be accommodated. It is embodied in three aspects: the opening of the basic definition of e-commerce law, the opening of basic system and the opening of e-commerce legal structure.

4. Complexity: The complexity of e-commerce transaction relationship stems from the complexity and dependence of its technical means. It is manifested in that usually the parties must complete the trading activities with the assistance of a third party. For example, in the conclusion of the contract, Internet service providers are required to provide access services, and certification bodies provide digital certificates.