A recent report from Cnet news says after today's congressional hearing with China, GoDaddy.com plans to stop registering domain names in China. The reason being is new regulations requires a great deal of information from China users. Users are now required to submit a picture and business licenses number. GoDaddy plans to continue to manage existing .cn users but not allow any new registrants.
GoDaddy has had an increase of Distributed Denial of Service or DDOS in the past few months from China. Censorship has been a problem in China. This is the first time a governemt has ask the company to seek additional information from its customers.
I think China is a very strict company so some companies should leave China. Hackers in China are not only threatening to the companies but to the users of the company. Hackers could get control of private information. GoDaddy might follow google and who is moving their severs to Hong Kong where the laws are less strict.
GoDaddy has had an increase of Distributed Denial of Service or DDOS in the past few months from China. Censorship has been a problem in China. This is the first time a governemt has ask the company to seek additional information from its customers.
I think China is a very strict company so some companies should leave China. Hackers in China are not only threatening to the companies but to the users of the company. Hackers could get control of private information. GoDaddy might follow google and who is moving their severs to Hong Kong where the laws are less strict.
I think that China's government is getting too involved in business in their country. I realize that's how communist countries work, but it's getting a little ridiculous. I am surprised that corporations are walking out on China because of the amount of money they are losing when they do, but someone needs to do something.
ReplyDeleteThis is always the sticky part with business in other countries. I think its hard to satisfy other countries rules if you are not familiar with all their rules. That sad when they don't have to follow those rules in the US.
ReplyDeleteI think China is just too old school for me. I mean you can't just shut your citizens out from the outside world. And honestly after Google is making this bold move to sort of "defy" China, many, many other companies will follow. And in the end the citizens suffers. But also I get that other countries have different views on things but I just don't agree with it. What gets me the most is you can't Google "Tiemann Square Massacre" in China. New generations of Chinese aren't supposed to learn about their past? Isn't the old saying: "Those who don't know their history are doomed to repeat it?"
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