Comments on: Chinese domain owners lose addresses http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/01/05/chinese-domain-owners-lose-addresses/ Technology news Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:15:02 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Gareth Powell http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2007/01/05/chinese-domain-owners-lose-addresses/comment-page-1/#comment-2716 Gareth Powell Sat, 06 Jan 2007 07:30:04 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure: /2007/01/05/chinese-domain-owners-lose-addresses/#comment-2716 This story has been since been denied by pretty much all of the Chinese authorities. It almost certainly did not happen. I explain this on http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/it/. Liu Ningbo from HiChina Web Solutions, China’s largest domain registration service provider, said the losses are only possible in ‘theory’ but not in ‘reality’. He said, 'Internet users are reminded at least a month before their leased domain expires and the domain names are frozen and kept for one or two months after the expiry date. Liu Ningbo said the company suspended its registration service for international domains for two days after the quake. He said, ‘People don’t have to rush to pay the leasing fee. They can retrieve their domain names by resuming the leasing fee within the time limit.’ Liu said that he had not seen a sudden loss of international domains since the quake. I think he is probably right in this. Gareth Powell This story has been since been denied by pretty much all of the Chinese authorities. It almost certainly did not happen. I explain this on http://www.chinaeconomicreview.com/it/.
Liu Ningbo from HiChina Web Solutions, China’s largest domain registration service provider, said the losses are only possible in ‘theory’ but not in ‘reality’.
He said, ‘Internet users are reminded at least a month before their leased domain expires and the domain names are frozen and kept for one or two months after the expiry date.
Liu Ningbo said the company suspended its registration service for international domains for two days after the quake. He said, ‘People don’t have to rush to pay the leasing fee. They can retrieve their domain names by resuming the leasing fee within the time limit.’
Liu said that he had not seen a sudden loss of international domains since the quake.
I think he is probably right in this.

Gareth Powell

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