China Restricts Domain Regsitrations of Olympians' Names

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Via The International Herald Tribune (AP).

[snip]

China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet
addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.

The move announced Tuesday came after companies registered the names of
winning Chinese athletes at the 2004 Athens Olympics as Web addresses,
prompting an outcry by sports fans.

"The move will better protect the interests of the Olympic gold medalists,"
said an official of the government's China Internet Network Information
Center, quoted by the state Xinhua News Agency. It identified him only by
the surname Hu.

The Chinese government controls the awarding of Web addresses using the
".cn" suffix but has no power over those assigned in other countries.

The General Administration of Sport gave the agency a list of Chinese
Olympians ahead of the games and registered all possible domain names using
their names, Xinhua said.

[snip]

More:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/20/business/AS-TEC-China-Olympic-Add
resses.php

China is setting a very good example in this case -- there are currently
about 300 registered domain names that contain "Michael Phelps" in their
name, and I'm quite sure that not all of them are "above-board", so to
speak:

http://domain-search.domaintools.com/?q=michael+phelps

- - ferg

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