Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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.'"

8 of 243 comments (clear)

  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."

    --
    Liberal? Conservative? Compare perspectives at Left-Right
    1. Re:Wow by Eighty7 · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  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.

    --
    "I use a Mac because I'm just better than you are."
    1. Re:Hey, Me Too! by oldspewey · · Score: 5, Interesting

      I once worked with a client with subcontractors in China, who would at various times send him mockups and technical drawings for various products. On one particular project, time was getting tight and the subcontractor became strangely non-communicative at a crucial juncture. My client's blood pressure started rising as he kept trying (within the confines of a 10-12 hour timezone difference and a fairly significant language barrier on the telephone) to figure things out and get all the information we needed.

      The subcon kept insisting "I sent the files. I sent the files" but he never received them. As a workaround I set up an FTP space where files could be exchanged and we got through our deadlines that way. After the fact, an idea occurred to me and I told my client "hey, why don't you just phone up your ISP and ask them why you're not getting email from China?"

      Sure enough, it turned out his ISP had one day decided to just unilaterally stop accepting email from Chinese IP addresses. They did this as a spam and malware control measure, but didn't see fit to inform their customers of the change since they assumed it wouldn't impact anyone in any real way.

      Fun times.

      --
      If libertarians are so opposed to effective government, why don't they all move to Somalia?
  3. No it's not. by IANAAC · · Score: 5, Insightful
    No, it's not obligatory.

    It's old and entirely unoriginal.

  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.

    --
    The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
  5. .CN domain extensions, not chinese registrations! by MrCawfee · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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

    Good. Don't buy anything made in China.