China’s Draft Rule Targets Domain Name Supervision, Could Limit Access to Foreign Sites

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China’s Draft Rule Targets Domain Name Supervision, Could Limit Access to Foreign Sites

By CircleID Reporter
March 29, 2016, 7:19 pm PDT Views: 7,185 Add Comment

China’s government has proposed taking stronger steps towards accessing websites in the country as part of its latest push to set boundaries in the wider Internet. On March 25, the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT), which oversees China’s internet and telecommunications sectors, released a public draft regulation [Chinese] outlining rules on domain name registrations. Among the proposed rules, Article 37, states:

“Domain names that connect to the network from within the borders shall have services provided by domestic domain name registration service bodies, and domestic domain name registration management bodies shall carry out operational management.

For domain names that connect to the network from within the borders, but which are not managed by domestic domain name registration service bodies, Internet access service providers may not provide network access services.”

Although not clear as of yet, if proposed rules were to be appllied to all websites, it would have major implications—effectively cutting China out of the global Internet.

By CircleID Reporter

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