10,000 Internet domain names lost due to quake disruption

[levd]

Dont know if this is old news for you...

10,000 Internet domain names lost due to quake disruption


www.chinaview.cn 2007-01-05 16:19:26



BEIJING, Jan. 5 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Internet users lost about 10,000 dotcom Internet domain names due to disruption caused by the Taiwan earthquake.

The China International Network Information Center said about 10,000 Chinese users were unable to update data about their .com domain names and failed to re-register on expiry of their domain times.

Domain name servers were not responsible for domain names lost if the holder failed to re-register in the set period, said the center.

"Because the domain names are lost due to an act of God, enterprises and individuals involved may be appropriately compensated by the domain name server, but the scheme is still under discussion," said an insider. There were few cases in which lost domain names were resumed.

Undersea cable connecting China to the United States was severed by the Dec. 26 earthquake off Taiwan's south coast, which caused Internet connection disruption between the two countries since.

A full service is expected to be resumed by Jan. 15

 

[oKiAo]

That is new to me. The earth quake is old, though didn't know it affect the domain renewals. Feel sorry for the domain name holders...
Thanks for sharing the news!

 

[Damion]

Quite the butterfly effect here.......
Some things are so unexpected.

 

[renec]

There was probably a misunderstanding:

According to the Chinese news agency Xinhua, the China Internet Network Information Center (CINNC) had said that Chinese domain owners lost about 10,000 .com domains due to disruption caused to domain name servers by the recent Taiwan earthquake.

The news report was quickly picked up by media around the world. However, the CINNC denied it made the remarks which led to the original report. Mr. Liu Ningbo from China’s largest domain registration provider (HiChina Web Solutions Ltd.), said the losses are possible only in theory but not in practice. Owners of .com domains are reminded at least 30 days before their domain expires. Even after the expiration date, domain names are frozen and kept for one or two months after the expiry date (called the “redemption period”), which is in line with .com industry practices.

More info: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/06/content_776083.htm

Apparently the earthquake had affected access to China-based DNS servers, a disruption which made thousands of .com domains that are hosted in China temporarily inaccessible. The domains themselves were not affected.

 

[Mark]

Yeah , I was just reading this on several sites ..... The title of the "news" on most sites was exaggerated a bit. Still , It is something to think about Renew Early if you plan to keep certain domains.

 

[freddy]

Sounds like propaganda.
Better doing Colocation in China as in Taiwan?