This bit of news is really over the top: It turns out that China required GoDaddy to obtain photo headshot identification of all Chinese nationals who tried to register domains with them. They were then to transfer this identification to a Chinese authority called the Network Information Center (CNNIC) so that they could "review" it. Not only that, but they were supposed to do it retroactively, too. They were expected to go through all of their Chinese users, get photo ID for each and every one of them, and hand the ID's over to the Chinese government.
They said no. I guess this isn't an obvious choice; the folks at Microsoft are still working with China (and we can only imagine what their technology is used for by the PRC). At any rate, GoDaddy had the fortitude to say no, but as a result, they can no longer accept requests for domain name registrations from Chinese nationals. I'm not quite sure what this means for existing users, though.
GoDaddy stops selling domains to Chinese nationals originally appeared on Download Squad on Thu, 25 Mar 2010 07:30:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.
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