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China Tightened Control on New Domain Extension

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China is the nation with largest online population and significant buying power which is expected to provide a large crowd of buyers for new domain name extensions such as .app, .auto or .camera. However, the country is placing strict control in the market place. In light of the issue, Brandma.Co's representatives will be participating in the upcoming ICANN meetings to be held from June 21-25 in Argentinato interact with interested registries and registrars.

The Chinese Government has launched a new round of "stern supervision and control policies to domain name registration administrations (registries) and domain registration service agencies (registrars) at home and abroad to strengthen domestic Internet safety." The 6-month special action, starting April this year, was publicly announced on the website of country's top Internet / Media bureau, Cyberspace Administration of China(CAC). Registrars in Chinahave all been notified and have started to voluntarily remove the domain name extensions that were not approved by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT).

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I was reading about this in the news section, wonder how it will pan out? I see that .cn, .top, .ren and .wang are approved but I don't see .com etc...

I really wonder what all this means, will China cut off extensions that are not approved by them?

The only approved extension I like which is approved is .ren within the list.

Hopefully more details will come out on this as .com isn't even on the list, only 8 so far.. D-:
 
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No doubt there was corruption money and guarentees of Internet censorship behind the scenes in the China government and .Top deal. I understand how corupt, repressive, Communist governments work from my years living in China.
 
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No doubt there was corruption money and guarentees of Internet censorship behind the scenes in the China government and .Top deal. I understand how corupt, repressive, Communist governments work from my years living in China.

I like .ren more generic
 
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I like .ren more generic

.ren is also more popular and renewals are less expensive than .top. For the Chinese market .ren is a winner. I mean, .top is like some old fashioned English word that people hardly ever use anymore. But if you live in the 1980s or 1950s then saying "top" might make sense. It also sounds awful when it's placed behind the keyword. If it could be placed in front of the keyword then it would make sense.
 
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I've noticed a lot of Chinese hosters using US nameservers and registrars. The WHOIS data is typically behind a privacy service or has bogus contact data. At the moment, China has a major involvement in .COM and some of the other gTLDs when measured by nameservers. Not sure how this gTLD footprint will change with these new rules.

Regards...jmcc
 
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Not in China and I am sure that government will do what ever the hell that government wants to do. Nothing that ICANN can say or do about it.
If China becomes the world reserve (currency) then there will really be nothing that will stop them for doing any damn thing they want to.
With that said, I have a very limited interest in this article because of the gTLD .ren.
I liked that extension enough way back when to pick up to quasi good English terms in that extension. I am OK with it being on the short list for China.

That is my 2 cents.

Cheers
 
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I've noticed a lot of Chinese hosters using US nameservers and registrars. The WHOIS data is typically behind a privacy service or has bogus contact data. At the moment, China has a major involvement in .COM and some of the other gTLDs when measured by nameservers. Not sure how this gTLD footprint will change with these new rules.

Regards...jmcc

Yes, there are always ways for the "rich" to go around the laws. There is no way the can control everything going on on the internet. China is as much capitalistic as it is communistic and there will always be corruption. Money is king, even there.
 
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