• GoDaddy Leaves China due to China Asking for private info
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[url]http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100324/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_go_daddy_china[/url] [QUOTE]WASHINGTON – Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites said Wednesday they had stopped registering new domain names in China because the Chinese government has begun demanding pictures and other identification documents from their customers. One of the domain name companies, Go Daddy Inc., announced its change in policy at a congressional hearing that was largely devoted to Google Inc.'s announcement Monday that it will no longer censor Internet search results in China. Christine Jones, executive vice president and general counsel of Go Daddy, said its decision was not a reaction to Google and instead reflects her company's concern about the security of its customers and "the chilling effect" of the new Chinese government requirements. "We just made a decision that we didn't want to act as an agent of the Chinese government," Jones told lawmakers. Separately, a company that offers similar services, Network Solutions LLC, also said Wednesday it had stopped handling China Web registrations in December, for the same reason. Go Daddy — a company known for risque ads that mock congressional hearings — has been registering domain names in China since 2005 under authorization from the China Internet Network Information Center, a quasi-government agency. The company currently manages about 27,000 ".cn" domain names. That's a small slice of Chinese Web sites, and ".cn" names continue to be available through other resellers. Go Daddy said the agency has always made the company, known as a registrar, collect customer names, addresses and other contact information since it began registering ".cn" Internet domain names. But late last year, Go Daddy said, the Chinese agency changed its policy to require ".cn" domain name registrars to also collect head shots, business identifications and signed registration forms from new customers and then forward that information to the agency. Then, Jones said, the agency instructed domain name registrars to obtain this same information from existing customers and forward it too — warning that Web sites of customers who refuse to register would be disabled. Go Daddy said it has contacted its 1,200 of its customers with ".cn" Web sites, asking for the additional documentation and informing them that it would be handed over to the China Internet Network Information Center. The company said only about 20 percent of those customers have provided the documentation. Now, Jones said, the company won't register new names. She did not say how much of the company's revenue the business was bringing in. Network Solutions said in a statement that it dropped the service in December because the Chinese policy was "intrusive" and would have placed a burden on its customers. Similarly, another domain name registrar based in the U.S., eNom Inc., wants to continue offering ".cn" Web addresses, but is worried that the changes China has ordered "could make it almost impossible to do it," said Jeffrey Eckhaus, general manager at eNom. A man who answered the phone at the Chinese Embassy in Washington on Wednesday could not comment.[/QUOTE]
Go... GoDaddy! :downs:
This gained some respect to GoDaddy for me, I don't really like those commercials though.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQjDYuAk4JE[/media] I think personally they will have a rebel soon, I think all of asia will rebel soon
Can't they just get .com addresses through a registrar outside of China?
The hilarious thing is that China is forcing itself back into the manufacturing age, while the rest of the world will zoom ahead with the information and services age. I'm going to enjoy watching Chinas export polarise to 100% plastic goods.
[QUOTE=Jallen;20953042]The hilarious thing is that China is forcing itself back into the manufacturing age, while the rest of the world will zoom ahead with the information and services age. I'm going to enjoy watching Chinas export polarise to 100% plastic goods.[/QUOTE] China was never out of the industrial age. They're just getting into it now. And information age was my term I demand royalties
Wow, whats the emigration rate in China, I'd be moving the fuck out of there Seems like they get worse by the day
[QUOTE=wutanggrenad;20953298]Wow, whats the emigration rate in China, I'd be moving the fuck out of there Seems like they get worse by the day[/QUOTE] But can they move out? I wouldn't be surprised if it's very illegal and dangerous.
Nice to see other companies following Google's example.
[QUOTE=wutanggrenad;20953298]Wow, whats the emigration rate in China, I'd be moving the fuck out of there Seems like they get worse by the day[/QUOTE] I go to portsmouth uni in the UK, and 4 of the 7 people in my block in halls are chinese.
[QUOTE=Jallen;20954442]I go to portsmouth uni in the UK, and 4 of the 7 people in my block in halls are chinese.[/QUOTE] Hmm, here in Victoria, BC, Canada has alot of chinese to for some reason.
Nice! Glad I used GoDaddy.
There will probably be many other internet based companies in the near future leaving China. This is only the beginning.
[QUOTE]GoDaddy Leaves China[B] due to[/B] China Asking for private info [/QUOTE] :sigh:
China needs to get their shit together.
I hope all the big companies leave china...
[QUOTE=smidge146;20963087]I hope all the big companies leave china...[/QUOTE] Okay. Deal with the problem, not the symptom.
I never liked GoDaddy.
[QUOTE=RaDiVaX;20964015]I never liked GoDaddy.[/QUOTE] Looks like your feelings were unfounded then huh
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;20963903]Okay. Deal with the problem, not the symptom.[/QUOTE] There's no problem when there's no symptoms.
[QUOTE=johanz;20964464]There's no problem when there's no symptoms.[/QUOTE] China being completely intrusive, and censoring mass amounts of information isn't a problem?
Not to China.
Just god damn revolt already Chinese people, Jesus Christ.
their commercials are so unfair.
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