In a drastic move to tighten regulations of the Internet, individuals can no longer register domain names in China, and those who already have personal websites could lose them.
According to a statement on The China Internet Network Information Centre, as of this week, the only people who can register new domains will be businessmen or organizations, and all those new registrants will need to have both written application materials as well as copies of their enterprise’s business license or organization code certificate.
The China Internet Network Information Centre, which supervises domain name registration, says that the measure stemmed from concern over widespread pornographic content on personal websites.
Existing individual domains could also be in trouble. Website owners in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi said their sites were no longer accessible.
Wow that is a big step! It is such a shame to see such a powerful tool for freedom being stripped from the people who need a voice.
First place I checked for context and discussion was http://rconversation.blogs.com/rconversation/2009/12/china-tightens-internet-controls-all-in-the-name-of-fighting-porn-piracy-and-cybercrime.html
Good info towards end of that post.
We complain about a lot of things in North America…we need only look at China to see how bad it could be!
Mark
is anybody surprised, they are talking about China, the country run by crazy people.
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…and a lot of people want to invest in this type of country!?
This only further demonstrates how clueless the Chinese leaders are. Can they really expect this to work? I can have a website registered in another country up in minutes. I see this more as an act of desperation from a regime that is losing its grip.
So what? It just be another little tiny question to chinese
Wow, thats pretty messed up dude. Whats up wiff those Chinese folk!
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I expect a lot of people to move out of China with the censorship showing no sign of letting up.
Damn, no more personal registration?
In Communist China, government website register YOU!
Give it time and this will be our lives as well.
What does this have to do with…anything? Domains are only a standardized string to IP address translation as agreed upon by a network of DNS servers. Everyone still has their own IP address, and everyone can still run their own server. Anyone can still make their own DNS server or DNS listing. The only way this makes sense is to keep the DNS namespace small, i.e. to keep DNS names under control of the business licensing program. It has absolutely nothing to do with porn, which people get on p2p which uses raw IP addresses.
This is fake news, OK? Did anyone even bother to read the link to the original announcement? It said nothing about forbidding individuals from obtaining a domain name.
Anyone dumb enough to host a personal website on the .cn domain deserves what they get. This shouldn’t surprise anyone, China pulls this kind of nonsense everyday.
Good move from the government, to force the young ppl to focus on developing the country instead of pornography.
if china won’t change it’s stupid law, the country will be in trouble in next second.
you guys don’t realize that if this does work for china, all others countries are going to jump in on the idea. big govs like control.
Can people register nicknames as a domain instead?
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