GoDaddy Follows Google's Lead; No More Registrations In China 243
phantomfive writes "GoDaddy has announced it will no longer register domain names in China, in response to new requirements that each registrant be photographed, and their business ID number be submitted. GoDaddy's representative said, 'The intent of the procedures appeared, to us, to be based on a desire by the Chinese authorities to exercise increased control over the subject matter of domain name registrations by Chinese nationals.'"
Good. (Score:3, Insightful)
Re:Good. (Score:3, Insightful)
fuck, shit, piss
No it's not. (Score:5, Insightful)
It's old and entirely unoriginal.
Re:Hey, Me Too! (Score:5, Insightful)
It is easy for many companies that deal with web-based work to do this. China is a hotbed of Internet fraud. Although GoDaddy probably makes quite a bit off of domain registrations for .com/.net/etc from China, adding in the photography requirement isn't what will kill their interest. It is the eventual benefit of this requirement that would reduce much of the fraud coming from China (one hopes), and with the reduction of fraud, there are very few legitimate .com/.net/etc registrations from China compared to the US and the rest of the world.
Re:pandemic? (Score:5, Insightful)
Mod this interesting? How the hell is China going to operate in a global economy where more and more business is done over the Internet? The whole point of the filtering is the realization that China cannot compete without allowing access to the Internet, but trying to mitigate the potential delirious effects (to the government and the party) of a fully open Internet. If all it took was just chopping down the copper and fiber at the borders and shutting off access to foreign satellites, without any harmful effects to the Chinese economy, they would have done this fifteen years ago. They don't because they can't, so they have to use the state muscle to try to keep people from seeing dangerous information.
Re:Wow (Score:5, Insightful)
Probably has most of all to do with GoDaddy not wanting to figure out the logistics of integrating the new photography/ID requirements into their purchase system.
Re:inalienable rights (Score:2, Insightful)
Re:pandemic? (Score:4, Insightful)
For Apple to abandon a supplier practically costs them nothing. There are a hundred more companies eager to step up to the plate and at worst Apple sees a temporary dimple in their supply.
For Google to take a stance that they know shuts out a massive demographic is a much more significant ethical stand.
The two are not even close in terms of sacrifice involved.
Re:inalienable rights (Score:4, Insightful)
can't we just let countries choose their own path?
Can't China just let its citizens choose their own path?
Re:inalienable rights (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh, we've done it many times in South America. Pinochet comes to mind immediately.
Re:Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
Having dealt with GoDaddy in the past (it took less than a month from setting up the hosting account to me threatening to sue them for breach), I'm pretty certain that the reason has nothing to do with doing right by their customers, so that pretty much leaves the alternatives; when you eliminate the unimaginable, whatever remains must be the case.... :-D
My guess would be that it would take too much effort to add this to their purchasing system. They seem utterly incapable of making even simple changes to that system, which tells me that it's probably an unholy mess....
Re:Good. (Score:2, Insightful)
Comments about her being hot -- fine, not sexist.
Suggesting she should've been a model? I'm not sure if it's sexist, but seems a bit obnoxious. Maybe she did what she wanted -- followed her passion?
Re:Good. (Score:5, Insightful)
Is that possible?
Re:Good. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:They still have a stranglehold... (Score:3, Insightful)
What if China cuts us off from manufacturing?
Then we will move our manufacturing to other poor countries: Cambodia, Thailand, India, Latvia will all be happy to pick up the slack if China lets off. They all want to learn the skills and technology, too.
China can't conquer by cutting off production of cheap manufactured goods. If they stop producing stuff, yeah, there might be a shortage and deep recession for a number of years (mainly depending on how quickly they stop; remember that if they stop immediately it will really hurt them too, and if it is a long slow stop, it will be easy for us to adapt to), but it won't take long to get production back up in other places.
Also, I can't speak for the UK, but in the US there is still a manufacturing industry of $2.7 trillion. So it isn't a hopeless case.
Re:perfect the enemy of the good (Score:3, Insightful)
Good luck with that.
As I sit here and consider all that is before me from China, I realize I would have to get rid of:
My LCD picture frame
My lamps
My vacuum cleaner
My stereo
My microwave
My oven
My dishwasher
My speakers
My toaster
My guitar hero controller
My Wii
My TV
My DVD player
My coffee maker
I'll just go ahead and stop there. That is just the stuff I can see without getting up off my couch. If I went through the bedrooms and threw away everything made in China, my house would be half empty.