Whois: Optional freedom of being anonymous
Wednesday, 21 December 2016I got a pop-up message from Ali Cloud, saying that all .top domains registered between 7 Nov and 15 Dec 2016 must complete the real-name authentication certification otherwise they will be put to serverhold status.
The team behind .top registry is a Chinese company located in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China (Address shown as 江苏省南京市雨花大道2号邦宁科技园3楼). I'm not surprised to see the updated regulations requiring additional real-name authentication. However I still believe that the anonymity should be an option for the clients, compulsory real-name authentication is not welcomed here.
As of end of the year 2016, the Google has indexed at least 7,120,000 pages within .top domain tld (through search query site:.top).
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Posted by Guoyu @ 15:21, .
