120K domains - basically cnnic seems to have finally got tired of russian botmaster types registering thousands of domains at a time, and put in a rule that says you need business registration in China / ID in china to register a .cn
Beyond that, that's one ccTLD - however large. There are multiple gTLDs that have already done a great job of cleanup (biz, info for example) and so far I haven't heard of .us having an infestation of botmasters / spammers. And of course there are all the registrars out there that need to be reached out to / handled etc etc - but that's another kettle of fish. We're discussing two different things here - apples and oranges, though it does look like they're all part of the same fruit salad. 1. Action by different registrars / registries [in .cn's case, a government controlled registry, to be sure] 2. State policy to route internet access and DNS through an inspecting + rewriting firewall that blocks or replaces politically unacceptable content --srs On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 11:17 AM, Randy Bush <ra...@psg.com> wrote: > china nukes 120,000 domains for going against the policy of the state. > > oops! that wasn't china, was it? > > perhaps, we should postpone telling others what to do until our side of > the street is clean? > > randy > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.li...@gmail.com)
