CNNIC Temporarily Halts New .CN Registrations
Posted on | January 6, 2010 | 5 Comments
CNNIC has temporarily halted new .CN registrations starting January 6, 2010 while CNNIC refines their audit process.
Previous message regarding .CN:
Starting in December 2009, CNNIC, the CN central registry, is only allowing organizations and businesses to register .CN domains. They have also implemented an audit process, where each registrant is required to fill out a CNNIC audit form. In addition, the registrant needs to provide proof of business and identity to match with their WHOIS contact record name and organization details.
Newly registered .CN domains will not resolve until CNNIC approves the registrant’s audit form information.
Interesting. Exact reason why I don’t like to venture out to different TLDs and why when some people say ccTLD is better than .net I tend to disagree (in terms of the .com not being available and you having to choose an alternative).
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January 6th, 2010 @ 7:16 pm
You should not judge all ccTLDs the same way as .cn TLD. It is obvious that .cn names are “different” because the country itself is different.
But take .de, .nl, .co.uk, .pl, .es and many other ccTLDs and you will see they are more popular in their countries than .com. Not talking about .net, .org and other domains that are much less popular. Trust me.
January 6th, 2010 @ 9:40 pm
Daniel,
The judgment isn’t on the overall base of ccTLDs. It’s just pointing out the fact that sometimes the rug can be pulled from underneath you when you least expect it.
With the “freedom” of gTLDs such as com/net, you very rarely run into something extreme to where you can get your domain name taken away, such as with a recent situation in Australia where someone had their domain taken away due to voicing their opinion on the Australian Internet Censorship.
I definitely understand your comment and agree–there are some VERY worthy ccTLDs out there, such as .de and .co.uk, but there is always that risk involved with them due to different country regulations.
Also, in some countries such as Poland, there are VERY MANY instances where every domain is open except for the .pl, which is an actual running and well developed website. Sometimes the gTLDs aren’t favored over the keyword.ccTLD counterpart. I have found many of these domains open in .com and have very rarely registered them (keywords, not trademarks). Just wasn’t worth it, IMO.
Thank you for the insightful comment! Appreciated.
January 7th, 2010 @ 1:27 pm
Sammy,
I fully agree with you. For instance – I would NEVER invest in a foreign ccTLD without a proper research.
And if you invest in a ccTLD of a country like China you have to take into account that your domains can disappear any possible moment.
January 8th, 2010 @ 4:06 am
will, sami has an interesting point
February 9th, 2010 @ 6:51 am
spam zone (( .cn