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GoDaddy Follows Google's Lead; No More Registrations In China

Posted by timothy on from the use-your-health-insurance-number-instead dept.

phantomfive writes "GoDaddy has announced it will no longer register domain names in China, in response to new requirements that each registrant be photographed, and their business ID number be submitted. GoDaddy's representative said, 'The intent of the procedures appeared, to us, to be based on a desire by the Chinese authorities to exercise increased control over the subject matter of domain name registrations by Chinese nationals.'"

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  1. Wow by Anonymusing · · Score: 5, Funny

    GoDaddy did something I like.

    Though, it probably has less to do with "Yay Freedom!" than "We can't sell that even with big-breasted women."

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    1. Re:Wow by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Its also because GoDaddy asked if they would be allowed to accept Wii Miis instead of photos but China said no.

    2. Re:Wow by Eighty7 · · Score: 5, Funny

      I wish they'd go ahead and pull out of America too.

    3. Re:Wow by Onymous+Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

      Working well is not a defense for being evil.

      "The Death Star contractors are delivering on time and under budget! Look at the quality of this work!"

  2. Hey, Me Too! by 0racle · · Score: 5, Funny

    I would also like to announce that I will no longer be accepting contract work originating in China.

    Everything is easier when someone else takes the first steps.

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    1. Re:Hey, Me Too! by Thinboy00 · · Score: 4, Funny

      You'd think they'd start with Nigeria.

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  3. Obligatory by oldspewey · · Score: 1, Funny

    In Soviet China, domain registers you.

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  4. I wonder by Ukab+the+Great · · Score: 4, Funny

    If fu.cn is taken?

  5. Geeze... by DoofusOfDeath · · Score: 4, Funny

    What a bunch of boobs.

  6. Die China Die by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    The only thing China should be allowed to do is host a war.

  7. Re:No it's not. by spazdor · · Score: 2, Funny

    Let's all pile onto this pointless thread and chime in about how pointless it is, so that it will take longer to scroll past.

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  8. Re:pandemic? by hoggoth · · Score: 4, Funny

    > I think 'deleterious' is the word you were looking for.

    Why? "delirious " is a perfectly cromulent word.

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  9. Re:No it's not. by spazdor · · Score: 4, Funny

    In metasyntactic Mad-Lib substitution joke, Communist rhetorical cliches build unexpected wooden puns out of YEW!

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  10. Re:Good. by grumpyman · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good. Don't buy anything made in China.

  11. Re:pandemic? by oldspewey · · Score: 3, Funny

    Everyone else gets the Chinese equivalent of AOL, pre-1993

    They get floppies in the mail every month?

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  12. Re:What is their bottom line in China? by d34dluk3 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Doesn't GoDaddy.com practice extreme control over their clients?

    Extreme control over their clients' boobs is more like it.

  13. Re:Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    There is often a very thin line between funny and insightful.