China Rejects Worry Over Draft Web Domain Rules
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology previewed a draft revision to...
Mar 30, 2016
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology previewed a draft revision to...
Jan 21, 2014
Yesterday, all websites without a .cn top-level domain were temporarily inaccessible by web users...
Apr 11, 2013
As the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the private organization that oversees the Internet’s domain name system (DNS), wraps up its spring meeting in Beijing, the Wall Street Journal reports on...
Apr 26, 2010
Internet pioneer and Beijing University professor Hu Yong has posted a translation of his commentary, written for Southern Weekly in January, about new rules governing registration of domain names: So is there no cause for...
Apr 5, 2010
The Washington Post blog gives an update on another domain name register that is pulling out of China, and continued attacks on the Foreign Correspondents Club of China website: An Australian domain name registrar said last week...
Mar 24, 2010
The Washington Post reports on GoDaddy’s announcement that it would no longer register China-based domain names due to government requirements for personal information from registrants: GoDaddy.com Inc., the world’s...
Dec 23, 2009
From Reuters: China has issued new Internet regulations, including what appears to be an effort to create a “whitelist” of approved websites that could potentially place much of the Internet off-limits to Chinese...
Dec 26, 2005
From Interfax China : The Chinese government last week began closing down websites whose owners had not registered their personal information with the Ministry of Information Industry (MII), government officials said. “Unregistered websites were shut down as a warning. The government is not punishing anyone,” Hu Yonglong, the Vice Director of the Shanghai Communications Administration […]