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Report: China Halts Overseas Registrars from Registering and Renewing dot CN Domains

According to a report at RRPproxy, .Cn registry CNNIC has temporarily halted overseas registrars from registering .cn domain names on behalf of registrants. The move comes after CNNIC cracked down on registrations last month to clean up the .cn namespace.

The notice says overseas registrars won’t be able to register .CN domains “starting with January 6, 2010, 18:00 PM (Beijing Time). The registration stop is planned to be temporarily. According to the Chinese registry, difficulties in handling the comprehensive new application material are the reason for this drastic development.

The new application material is required since the middle of December 2009, when CNNIC suddenly changed its registration policies.”

The RRPproxy report also notes that China has added other restrictions:

1. Since January 1st, 2010, China domestic registrants are no longer allowed to register a .CN domain via an oversea registrar. 2. If any registrant’s business license or personal ID are not in Chinese or English, he has to file in a notarized English translation of these documents for domain name application starting with January 15th, 2010, 9:00 AM (Beijing Time).

According to information from foreign domain name registration service providers, China Internet Network Information Center has required these providers to suspend new registrations for dot CN domain names.

However, this change only applies to new dot CN registrations. CN registrants can still manage their existing dot CN domains. Dot CN domain transfer and CN domain renew requests are not affected with Chinese domain registars.

This is reportedly a new measure launched by CNNIC to enhance its management of dot CN domain names.