Chinesse authorities have put their foot down and written a new law which states that individuals can no longer register domain names in China. This move was set in place to tighten regulations of the Internet.
Businessmen and organisations will be the only parties able to register domains, and in order to register a domain, said parties will have to produce both written application material as well as copies of their enterprise’s business license or organisation certificate.
“The China Internet Network Information Centre, which supervises domain name registration, says that the measure stemmed from concern over widespread pornographic content on personal websites.
Existing individual domains could also be in trouble. Website owners in Jiangsu, Shanghai, Henan, Zhejiang and Jiangxi said their sites were no longer accessible.” ~ TheNextWeb
It will be interesting to watch what this does, and whether it will work and if so, whether it will creep into other countries.
