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GoDaddy Follows Google's Lead; No More Registrations In China
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.'"
Fuck China and its shit.
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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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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Not a big deal - godaddy isn't the only domain registry out there. I wonder what other companies are going to follow suit though. Endgame I see is china eventually unplugging from the rest of the world and inventing it's own set of 'tubes.
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In Soviet China, domain registers you.
If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
Good for GoDaddy! It probably won't make any difference, but it is always good to make a statement,
It's old and entirely unoriginal.
I have to wonder just how much GoDaddy.com was making from its presence in China. What was its market share? What was its gross revenue?
Based on the opinions of many /. comments, I would have suspected that the two would make happy bedfellows. Doesn't GoDaddy.com practice extreme control over their clients, rooting boxes, and taking over lapsed domain names to then extort their customers, or am I mistaking it for another registrar / host?
China is imposing requirements that domain registrants must provide a photo and a business ID. That's too much hassle for GoDaddy, home of extreme low-end domain registrations. This has little to do with politics and much to do with GoDaddy's business model.
If fu.cn is taken?
What a bunch of boobs.
flame me but can't we just let countries choose their own path? there is no reason we need to force the American world view down everyone's throat. yes I do like my country but am awfully tired of our half assed attempts to export our way of life at all levels only when we see fit. we have supported as many dictators as democracies mostly because dictators are easier to please and get to follow our wishes.
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This article summary is fairly misleading, they are no longer registering the .CN extension
Here is some background:
In December, giving 2 days notice to the international registrars, the .CN registry changed their policy to require paper documentation to register a .CN domain name. In January, because the registry didn't plan this very well, and because they gave absolutely no notice, they decided to turn off registrations all together until they could figure out how to actually implement their new policy. The registry implemented their policy without figuring out actually how to implement their policy..
After a month of no registrations, they opened it up, changing their policy once again to only allow .CN registrations for companies not individuals, and only companies that had an office in china. From what i understand, they are trying to remove the stigma of .CN being the #1 fraud extension (before .cm came out that is)
So to be clear, godaddy is no longer doing .CN registrations because .CN is no longer completely automated, which makes it unprofitable with their business model which is primarily based on volume.
The only thing China should be allowed to do is host a war.
On and one more thing, the Washington post article is WRONG TOO.
This is bullshit! This article is from today, it's not supposed to be posted here until earliest Friday and more likely by Sunday.
Do not comment! It will be posted again tomorrow anyway and your words will be forgotten. Or better yet I'll steal all the witty ones.
Pew pew
The real reason for Godaddy pulling out isn't because of the Chinese government's new registration requirements, but because it can't survive as business when the government starved the company advertising dollars by banning its Danica Patrick online porno video ads.
Not even a week ago there was an article on how the US government was pushing domain registrars to curtal effectivly anonymous registrations by pushing ID requirements. Before you critisize China you need to critical about the same shit closer to home.
Obviously the real reason why godaddy is pulling out is that for $5/yr or whatever the registration costs are the paperwork and ID requirements would not even come close to covering the cost of registration.
we need to take the growing chinese threat to america a lot more seriously than we have in the past. huzzah to google and godaddy for "getting it"
Remember kids, if you're not paying for the service, YOU ARE THE PRODUCT THAT IS BEING SOLD.
Other than the Post's general issues with content, how is the article wrong?
(Please post citations and sources for your conclusion.)
Note that the article quotes GoDaddy's general counsel as saying "We decided we didn't want to be agents of China."
I too will stop doing my business in China immediately. The fact I haven't started doing business there is irrelevant. The fact I might start again when nobody is paying attention is also irrelevant. All that matters now is that I grab some headlines and some free advertising ;)
Jumpstart the tartan drive.
are there some hyptocrites around?
In the news one can hear now that China does not like Google and some US services sharing bed and servers.
I think now some of the real reasons show up!
...that each registrant be photographed, and their business ID number be submitted...
That doesn't sound too terribly far fetched for a step to be taken by any number of governments including the UK and US.
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how about we stop buying products that are Made In China?
...Daddy ?!? Not even the spare ribs ?
And their eye-bleed .NET web site, but I applaud this stand by GoDaddy. They did the right thing and that always speaks louder than really tacky advertising to me.
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The Chinese government censors the Internet, thus screwing Chinese internet users. Google and GoDaddy find this offensive, so they cease serving Chinese internet users, thus screwing them again. Remind me how this makes sense?
"Smith has sponsored a bill that would make it a crime for U.S. companies to share personal user information with "Internet-restricting" countries. "
Actually if you think about it, that Bill would help companies like Google and GoDaddy. Sorry China I can't help you in your quest to find out which of your citizens posted that content! Problem solved thanks to the new Bill.
I'm sure there are plenty of chinese nationals willing to settle for a domain outside China just to avoid the registration requirements. So they might make more money in China by not being in China.
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This really does not hurt China much.
The western society is a 'servce culture', we exchange value by doing things for one another. The east culture is a manufacture culture. In the UK, our youth look up to playing instruments, video games, being footballers or engineers - doing service related things. In China, education is very important and cut throat. It's more about being a mathmatician, engineer or scientist. In my book about China and Microsoft (Gwanshee), the Chinese can get into university degrees as young as 13!
They are reducing our production capability - they manufacture a large number of things for us so we can do business cheaper. This is a massive stranglehold they have: we benefit because our businesses can do things for less. It's no longer profitable for us to run factories and production workshops in our own territories. This means we become dependent on them, like sucking from a teat.
What do they get from it?
Skills, knowledge, experience to bolster their own country. We get nothing. If we send an Apple engineer to overseer production of an iPod*, who is actually learning how the technology works? Do you think that it's really private from the native factory owners? We're essentially giving them technology and abilities. We have seen them building factories, power stations and transport links that put ours to shame, they are really building themselves an impressive infrastructure. They fund international scholarships to put the skills they learn to good news.
We're digging ourself into a roadblock. What if China cuts us off from manufacturing? It's not as though ALL THE businesses have absolute control, they could not avoid retribution from the government!
We would be screwed. The UK practically builds nothing by itself anymore, we just let China do it. If they stop, we're unemployed and opened for expansion. I think they are grinding us down slowly and surely.
What do you think of China? What can we do about it?
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I wouldn't mind if some tlds could only be registered with some sort of identity verification.
Why would they point that out when they can spin it to be seen as noble agents of change?
It's more interesting than your fucking post, you wanker.
China will be feeling the pain when their businesses and citizens are no longer able to be conned out of their money by GoDaddy.
On and one more thing, the Washington post article is WRONG TOO.
Thanks for THE INFORMATION.
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China is bad, Russia is worst. Also I noticed a large amount of international (ie a .cn domain actually in .ru and vice-versa) and I wonder what anyone will do these. I seen all of these as links in spam messages when I do a check on the links within the messages.
There is no freaking way in hell that I am going to stop shopping on dealextreme.com
no. way.
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This is a shameless attempt by the world's worst domain registrar to ride on Google's coattails. As a registrar, GoDaddy engages in some of the shadiest practices ever devised in this little corner of the internet. If domain names were people, GoDaddy would be the China of DNS.
- I think Google management are immature, show a gross lack of understanding and tolerance, and I can assure all you Google groupies that you will not be getting much of a following. This case is not even related to Google so how can they be 'following Google'?
I fell short of predicting "others would follow" when I posted this:
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1592790&cid=31591052
Instead I expressed my hope that there would be others. Now we just need to see a windfall of other companies prepared to follow these two. I wonder if there is an easy way to list who is currently doing business in China so that we can lobby or petition them to also "do the right thing?" After all, China won't hold up for long if people start leaving them. If that were to keep up, China would have to capitulate if they would like to continue to grow.
We can't get the U.S. Government to take appropriate action, but maybe "the people" will do it anyway. We all love our "walmart" prices, but it seems we love our ideals just a little more.
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I'll show you censorship! *Rips off clothing* To see more, go to GoDaddy.com! (WARNING: WEB CONTENT UNRATED!!!)
I don't want to use a registrar where it stores your web hosting password with clear text.
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China Should pay for how they treated Google.
they want "a color, head-and-shoulders photograph."
This is not good. Too many tentions arise too fast.
Smells like a new Cold War is starting. The optimist in me hopes that it will stay limited to Internet-based hostilities only.
They're just riding the coat-tails of Google here. As others have posted the Chinese de-automated their registration procedure (paper documents!) and GoDaddy's business model simply can't accomodate that and still make a profit.
The tie-in with Google's China-bashing is just free publicity. Mark my anonymous coward words - GoDaddy will be back in China within a year with automated fax machines or something. That market is too big to ignore.