Chinese authorities want to meet every new .CN website owner… in person!
The latest rumours to come out of China suggest that authorities will require an in-person meeting with any prospective website operator behind a .CN domain name to green-light it.
Prospective .CN domain applicants may soon be required to meet with the authorities in person and show some kind of ID to ensure action can be taken against them should their website be used to display illicit content at any time.
Since last December, China has embarked on a fight against undesirable web content such as pornography. It started by closing off the very liberal .CN (used to be that anyone, from any country, could register) and limiting access to Chinese companies only.
The next step was excluding those foreign registrars that had been active on .CN ever since the Chinese government reached out to them in 2003 when .CN was first opened. As if blocking companies that had invested to add .CN to their registration systems and offer them to their customers wasn't enough, China then decided that any new .CN registration request would have to be made with heavy supporting documentation, thereby ending any hope for a relatively simple and cheap registration chain.
Problems for non-Chinese registrants and registrars alike have been compounded by the tendency for new rules to be announced only a few hours before coming into effect, giving all very little time to adapt.
Should this new requirement for website operators to meet with Chinese authorities in person be confirmed, it will be just one more example of this apparent lack of regard for .CN users and registrars worldwide.
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