Two U.S. Internet companies leave

WASHINGTON - Two U.S. companies that sell Internet addresses to Web sites pronounced Wednesday they had stopped induction new domain names in China given the Chinese supervision has started perfectionist cinema and alternative marker papers from their customers.

One of the domain name companies, Go Daddy Inc., voiced the shift in process at a congressional conference that was mostly clinging to Google Inc.s proclamation Monday that it will no longer bury Internet poke formula in China.

Christine Jones, senior physical education instructor clamp boss and ubiquitous warn of Go Daddy, pronounced the companys preference was not a greeting to Google but instead reflects the regard about the security of the commercial operation and "the chilling effect" of the new Chinese supervision requirements.

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"We usually done a preference that we didnt wish to action as an representative of the Chinese government," Jones told lawmakers.

Separately, a association that offers identical services, Network Solutions LLC, additionally pronounced Wednesday it had stopped doing China Web registrations in December, for the same reason.

Zhong Shan, Chinas clamp custom cabinet member in assign of unfamiliar trade, pronounced he hadnt been briefedthe Go Daddy decision.

Speaking to reporters at the Chinese Embassy in Washington, however, Zhong called Googles preference an "exceptional case" that wouldnt criticise the certainty of unfamiliar investors in China. He pronounced Chinas economy wasnt perfect, but that the supervision is operative to emanate a some-more tasteful investment environment.

"Chinas process of opening up stays unchanged," Zhong pronounced by an interpreter. "We still acquire unfamiliar investment."

Go Daddy — a association well well known for obscene ads that ridicule congressional hearings — has been induction domain names in China given 2005 underneath authorisation from the China Internet Network Information Center, a quasi-government agency. The association now manages about 27,000 ".cn" domain names. Thats a small cut of Chinese Web sites, and ".cn" names go on to be accessible by alternative resellers.

Go Daddy pronounced the group has regularly done the company, well well known as a registrar, pick up patron names, addresses and alternative hit inform given it began induction ".cn" Internet domain names. But late last year, Go Daddy said, the Chinese group altered the process to need ".cn" domain name registrars to additionally pick up head shots, commercial operation identifications and sealed registration forms from new commercial operation and afterwards brazen that inform to the agency.

Then, Jones said, the group educated domain name registrars to acquire this same inform from existent commercial operation and brazen it as well — notice that Web sites of commercial operation who exclude to register would be disabled.

Go Daddy pronounced it has contacted 1,200 of the commercial operation with ".cn" Web sites, asking for the one more support and informing them that it would be handed over to the China Internet Network Information Center. The association pronounced usually about twenty percent of those commercial operation have supposing the documentation.

Now, Jones said, the association wouldnt register new names. She did not contend how most of the companys income the commercial operation was bringing in.

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Network Solutions pronounced in a matter that it forsaken the use in Dec given the Chinese process was "intrusive" and would have placed a burdenits customers.

Similarly, an additional domain name registrar formed in the U.S., eNom Inc., wants to go on charity ".cn" Web addresses, but is disturbed that the changes China has systematic "could have it roughly unfit to do it," pronounced Jeffrey Eckhaus, ubiquitous physical education instructor at eNom.

AP Technology Writer Jordan Robertson in San Francisco and AP bard Foster Klug in Washington contributed to this report.

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