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Domain registrations in China – turning .cn to .can’t


2010
03.24

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I’ve been through the domain name registrations in China, in addition to the full documentation to be submitted to the Chinese authorities in order to not have the .cn account suspended.

However, now things have become interesting – registering domain names through non-Chinese registration authorities has been suspended since mid December:

We've disabled the registration of new domains for the moment. CNNIC
changed their rules regarding registration of new domains. Now, they
allow registration just for Chinese companies. Until they clear up
their policies, we've disabled the new domains registration.

That’s what most registrars are coming back with at the moment. However, GoDaddy has suddenly decided that now – 24 March 2010 – they won’t register domains for Civil rights reasons, amongst others. (more…)

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Google.cn relocated to Hong Kong


2010
03.23

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Well, as I said in the previous posting on this matter, Google decided to ‘close’ operations in China – to relocate to Hong Kong as www.google.com.hk.

In addition, there is no self-censorship in place anymore – anything goes, according to reports.

The Chinese Government is ‘disgusted’ at these developments and reiterated that foreign firms need to stick to Chinese law in China – which includes the censorship which has been used as the football in this situation (seeing that the actual reason for the bruhaha is Operation Aurora).

Google had a 35% market share of the search engine market in China – and now leaves a gaping hole in the online search/advertising space. So, is bing.cn next?

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Google will shut down Chinese google.cn


2010
03.15

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Google is going to shut down google.cn with a likelyhood some webhosts give as their uptime guarantee. With a reported 99.9% certainty, google.cn is going to power down, not due to business, but, as Eric Schmidt, Google CEO says, about the cencorship rules. Not, quite clearly then, as a reaction to Operation Aurora…

Li Yizhong, the Chinese minister for industry and information technology, said on Mar 12, 2010 that if Google were to take steps violating Chinese laws, “that would be unfriendly, that would be irresponsible, and they would have to bear the consequences.”

Mr Li encouraged Google to continue its operations in the country. “[Google] has taken 30 per cent of the Chinese search market.

“If you don’t leave, China will welcome that, if you don’t leave, it will be beneficial for the development of the internet in China.”

“Do no evil” vs business opportunity. Let’s see who wins…