The mainstream media has picked up on a blog post at Moonlight Blog reporting that Godaddy is unaccessable from within China.
People are speculating that its due to CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) banning Internet domain names that are based on gold medal winning athletes.
So what is the real reason? We will never know.
Last year, Reporters Without Borders covered a story about Godaddy withdrawing hosting for Chinese Human Rights sites.
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August 27th, 2008 at 6:21 pm
I would guess that GoDaddy’s sexist, objectifying, and demeaning attitude toward women might have something to do with it.
Of course, China’s human rights record is sorely lacking.
Maybe they deserve each other.
August 27th, 2008 at 7:34 pm
Snapnames has also been unaccessable from China for the last week. May be connected.
August 28th, 2008 at 3:53 am
China is quite strict with giving access to all websites for its residents.
Apparently they screen all websites before giving them the green light
(or red light) there.
my cousin who is a student in China cannot visit my websites/blogs etc..
the internet should not have barriers.. we once divided the world to make countries, then came the wars because of these divisions..
We even divided the Human race with religion/casts etc,..
we now have the internet.. please let’s not divide that as well.
August 28th, 2008 at 8:15 am
domain registered from godaddy can not be managered ,china is not so open as it looks