Free China .cn domain names
p2p news / p2pnet:- Net.cn, the largest domain name registrar in Communist China, says it’ll spend more than RMB10 million ($1,235,849 at the time of writing) on free domain names for current users and clients.
“Over the past few years, different Chinese government agencies have stressed the patriotic importance of owning .cn domain names because it can better limit hacking attempts from overseas and it can better integrate Chinese-language online services,” says ChinaTechNews.
Speaking of hacks, China is a hotbed of web sites used “heavily to target” US Defense Department and other computer systems, “successfully breaching hundreds of unclassified networks,” say unnamed US officials.
The FBI has labeled the attacks, rather sexily, Titan Rain but in Washington, "officials are tight-lipped about Titan Rain, insisting all details of the case are classified,” says Time Online.
High-level officials at three agencies told Time, "the penetration is considered serious" and a federal law-enforcement official "familiar with the investigation says the FBI is ‘aggressively’ pursuing the possibility that the Chinese government is behind the attacks," says the story. "Yet they all caution that they don’t yet know whether the spying is official, a private-sector job or the work of many independent, unrelated hands. The law-enforcement source says China has not been cooperating with U.S. investigations of Titan Rain.
“China’s State Council Information Office, speaking for the government, told TIME the charges about cyberspying and Titan Rain are ‘totally groundless, irresponsible and unworthy of refute’."
Meanwhile, the Net.cn offer will last for three months and the company will provide free .cn or .com.cn domains to its clients who already own the .com or .net versions of a domain name, says ChinaTechNews, adding:
“Net.cn says they plan to issue up to 300,000 Chinese top-level domain names during this promotion.”
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See:-
ChinaTechNews – Registrar Provides Free .CN Domain Names, September 5, 2005
Titan Rain – China hack sites threaten US, August 25, 2005
Time Online – The Invasion of the Chinese Cyberspies (And the Man Who Tried to Stop Them), September 5, 2005
