XYZ CEO Daniel Negari says the company is working to resolve issues selling domains in China.
China Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) has instructed domain name registrars in China to stop selling .xyz domain names as of May 4, Domain Name Wire has learned. Many registrars have already complied and are no longer selling .xyz domain registrations.
XYZ CEO Daniel Negari told Domain Name Wire that this should only be temporary as CentralNic, XYZ’s registry provider, updates the Real Names Verification (RNV) provider for selling .xyz domains in China.
“CentralNic is updating RNV providers to ensure there is stability in the RNV process and do our best to stop fraudulent registrations and abuse. We remain committed to a zero tolerance policy on abuse and I think we are on the right track to maintain that,” he said.
“It should be resolved shortly. In the meantime, domains are available in over 200 countries.”
Negari said the technical updates should occur sometime next week.
According to NameStat.org, over half of .xyz domain names are registered to people in China. However, many of these domains are registered at non-Chinese domain name registrars that are not affected by MIIT.
MIIT approved .xyz domains for sale and hosting in China in December 2016.
Andrew, you are incredibly well connected in China! I could not find anything in Chinese news regarding this matter.
And this is quite unusual because if it only happened to .xyz, the cause must be specific to this registry.
There is definitely something specific about xyz that miit is unhappy with. Negari seems to think it can be resolved quickly, and we will find out if that’s the case soon. If course, .xyz domains were being snapped up by the Chinese even before the miit approval so I’m not sure what short term impact it will have.
Extra regulatory requirements can be painful.
“do our best to stop fraudulent registrations and abuse”
There is a the smoking gun, is Negari bs’ing once again with the comment about this being temporary?
Some call it BS others call it spin marketing.
I’m no fan of Daniel but he’s been Hugely underestimated.
Has this been resolved? My Mandarin is quite basic. So is XYZ back in the game in China?
I don’t see any Chinese registrars on yesterday’s list at https://namestat.org/xyz