China Rejects Worry Over Draft Web Domain Rules
China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology previewed a draft revision to...
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Cyberattack Suspected for Major Internet Outage
Yesterday, all websites without a .cn top-level domain were temporarily inaccessible by web users...
Coming Soon: A Truly Chinese Internet
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...
Hu Yong (胡泳): The Chinese Internet Industry Will Thrive Only If It Respects Individuals
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...
Another Incident, Another Company Withdraws, Validating Go Daddy’s Move out of China
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...
Dell and GoDaddy Threaten to Follow Google Out of China (Updated)
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...
China To Require Internet Domain Name Registration (Updated)
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...
China closes unregistered websites en masse before Christmas – John Liu
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 […]
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