.CN domains no longer available outside China
Thursday, January 7, 2010 9:42CNNIC excludes oversea registrars from .CN registrations
CNNIC, the official registry for .CN, announced that all oversea registrars will no longer be allowed 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.
CNNIC has not specified a date at which the exclusion of oversea registrars from .CN registrations is removed again. The registry has announced to further explore methodologies on how to verify the registration information with its oversea partners. As soon as a new mechanism is established, CNNIC will reopen the registration.
We hope to be able to offer you .CN domains again soon. Prior to this last change, CNNIC has carried out two more changes in its registration policies:
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).
Source: www.rrpproxy.net/show_news.php#news1104
In order to further enhance the authenticity, accuracy, and integrality of the domain name registration information, now notify as following:
1. Domain name applicants need to submit the formal paper based application material when making the online application to the registrar. The application material includes the original application form with business seal, company business license (photocopy), and registrant ID (photocopy).
2. Registrar should carefully review the application material. When application is deemed qualified, registrar need to submit the application material via fax or E-mail to CNNIC, and withhold the original application material.
3. From the day of the submission of online application, if CNNIC does not receive the formal paper based application material within 5 days or the application material auditing is not qualified, the domain name to be applied will be deleted.
4. The above regulations will be executed since 9:00AM (Beijing Time), Dec 14th, 2009.
