China loses 9,000 Domain Names in Earthquake

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China loses 9,000 Domain Names in Earthquake

01-06-2007, 09:41 AM,

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China loses 9,000 Domain Names in Earthquake

Quote:Over 9,000 Chinese Web site operators have lost the use of their dot-com addresses due to telecom problems caused by last month's earthquake near Taiwan, the Beijing Times reported, citing domain registry sources.

The quake, which severed major international telecommunications lines, caused thousands of dot-com domain names held by Chinese users to vanish from world registries, the sources said.

Lingering disruptions to overseas Web connections have also prevented them from accessing overseas registries to re-register the names.

"So far, a large number of domain names held by businesses have been snatched by overseas investors, causing businesses to suffer losses,"...

full article: http://ecommercetimes.com/story/K4u9NKbf...uake.xhtml

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