China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the country's domain name administrator, says the first-year registration fee for domain names ending in ".cn" will be one yuan(one U.S. dollar equals 7.74 yuan).I don't think the one-yuan will do good to anybody except CNNIC:CNNIC is hoping the move will attract registrations from
enterprises and netizens. Previously is cost between 80 and 100 yuan to
register a domain name in China.People who register a domain name before May 31 will be
charged only one yuan for the first year, while subsequent years will
still cost 80 to 100 yuan a year, according to the CNNIC.At the end of 2006, China had 1.8 million websites that ended
in ".cn", up 64.4 percent year on year. The "CN" suffix is Asia's
largest and the world's fourth largest, statistics from the CNNIC show.In all there are 4.2 million registered domain names in China with most using the suffix .com or .net.
Observers said with 137 million netizens and more than 40
million enterprises huge potential remains for the development of
domain names ending with ".cn".
- individuals are not allowed to register the "cn" domain according to the policy of CNNIC.But this time,more individuals are willing to register without the fear of being confiscated.
- Each domain will still cost 80 to 100 yuan a year in subsequent years,so many people register just for fun.Can you count on them to help the development of China Internet?
- Running a website in China need to do a lot of "extra work",the most famous and basic one is the Realname System.In my memory,the process will last for 6~30 days,sometimes they even don't tell whether your sites are permitted to run or not.
- As the register fee falls,the cost of setting up a great deal of meaningless sites(we called them "garbage sites" in China), which are just for SEO,will falls too.And then,Search engines like Google may take some strict actions to punish this practice,possibly they will lower the importance of all domains ended with ".cn".I believe this evil assumption is going to happen.
They are counting the money...
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