The world’s largest registrar GoDaddy has announced it will resume selling domain names in China’s .CN domain, six years after it stopped doing so, DomainNameWire reports. The 2010 decision was prompted by Chinese authorities’ drastically toughening the rules for registrants, who were then required to submit colour photographs, a passport or a China-issued business registration, a physically signed registration form, and other documents. The registrar was required to forward this data to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC).
The new rules made the registrar’s work much more difficult, but GoDaddy had other reservations, particularly the need to share a great amount of personal data with Chinese officials.
The requirements haven’t changed much since, but the Chinese domain boom, which began in late 2015, has proved too serious a factor for a large domain business to ignore.
