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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. Good. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Fuck China and its shit.

    1. Re:Good. by skine · · Score: 4, Insightful

      Is that possible?

    2. Re:Good. by grumpyman · · Score: 4, Insightful

      This is exactly my point - I don't think it's possible (my comment never meant to be funny, but I find the modders amusing). Like it or not, as western society, we are part of the 'problem' (or you can call it 'ecosystem').

  2. No it's not. by IANAAC · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No, it's not obligatory.

    It's old and entirely unoriginal.

  3. Re:Hey, Me Too! by Jazz-Masta · · Score: 4, Insightful

    It is easy for many companies that deal with web-based work to do this. China is a hotbed of Internet fraud. Although GoDaddy probably makes quite a bit off of domain registrations for .com/.net/etc from China, adding in the photography requirement isn't what will kill their interest. It is the eventual benefit of this requirement that would reduce much of the fraud coming from China (one hopes), and with the reduction of fraud, there are very few legitimate .com/.net/etc registrations from China compared to the US and the rest of the world.

  4. Re:pandemic? by MightyMartian · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Mod this interesting? How the hell is China going to operate in a global economy where more and more business is done over the Internet? The whole point of the filtering is the realization that China cannot compete without allowing access to the Internet, but trying to mitigate the potential delirious effects (to the government and the party) of a fully open Internet. If all it took was just chopping down the copper and fiber at the borders and shutting off access to foreign satellites, without any harmful effects to the Chinese economy, they would have done this fifteen years ago. They don't because they can't, so they have to use the state muscle to try to keep people from seeing dangerous information.

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  5. Re:Wow by Trepidity · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Probably has most of all to do with GoDaddy not wanting to figure out the logistics of integrating the new photography/ID requirements into their purchase system.

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  6. Re:pandemic? by nahdude812 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    For Apple to abandon a supplier practically costs them nothing. There are a hundred more companies eager to step up to the plate and at worst Apple sees a temporary dimple in their supply.

    For Google to take a stance that they know shuts out a massive demographic is a much more significant ethical stand.

    The two are not even close in terms of sacrifice involved.

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  7. Re:inalienable rights by Hatta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    can't we just let countries choose their own path?

    Can't China just let its citizens choose their own path?

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  8. Re:inalienable rights by Hatta · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Oh, we've done it many times in South America. Pinochet comes to mind immediately.

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