China Restricts Domain Registrations of Olympians' Names
An AP newswire article, via The International Herald Tribune, reports that:
China has banned the use of its Olympic gold medalists' names as Internet addresses by anyone but the athletes themselves.More here.
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.
Note: 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. -ferg
posted by Fergie @ 8/20/2008 01:03:00 AM
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