US Government slams Chinese domain name rules

As reported in the April 2016 issue of Anchovy News, the Chinese Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) released a draft of new rules concerning the regulation of the domain name system in China. The proposed new policy contained a provision under Article 37 that any domain name (regardless of what TLD it is registered under) whose website is hosted in China must be registered with a Chinese domain name registrar. Failure to meet this requirement could result in that website being blocked to Internet users based in China.