“You can find everything on Google” but you cannot find google.com in China.
It is ridiculous but it is what is happening here in China.
By the order of Ministry of Information Industry, google.cn start “rectify” its search engine service to so filer “ill” information. Since June 23, google.com was cut off in China, with only google.cn works here. Some of other services, such Gmail is also affected in some areas.
Internet Users:298,000,000
Broadband Users:270,000,000
IPv4 Addresses:181,273,344
Domain Names:16,826,198
WWW Websites:2,878,000
International Bandwidth:640,287 Mbit/s
Data from www.cnnic.cn
General Information:
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the state network information center of China, was founded as a non-profit organization on Jun. 3rd 1997.
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1. According to the statistics of China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), by December 31, 2007, the number of Internet users in China has reached up to 210 million, while the number of the broadband Internet users has reached 163 million, accounting for 77.6% of the total. There are totally 11,931,277 domain names in China with 9,001,993 CN names, about 1,503,800 websites, and international bandwidth about 368,927Mbps. continue reading »
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What are the principles for registering .CN domain names?
You may register a CN domain name with not more than 63 English letters containing A-Z, a-z, 0-9 and hyphen (-). Capital and small letters are equivalent.
Why to register .CN domain name?
.CN domain names hold following advantages:
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Just a few days after its launch, bing.com has been blocked by GFW in China because it doesn’t filer “ill” information for China users. It is not a surprise at all since similar stories has happened a few times for Google.