Internet Marketing Becoming More And More Racist

You would really be lucky two years ago, if you found news about major website blocking other countries. Now, almost every month some major website is blocking countries and I think thats just bullshit and racist! I mean WWW after all still means “WORLD WIDE WEB” and not SWW “Some Wide Web”. Sites like YouTube, Amazon, Veoh, Ebay and now also GoDaddy are blocking access to certain countries , and I just want to know why? Is there a good reason for GoDaddy to block China? I really wonder who is the dumb ass that came up with that idea! GoDaddy is NOT the only registrar people can register websites with, after all GoDaddy prices are sky rocking and too expensive for what you get.

Reason GoDaddy blocked China from registering domain names is because they don’t want them to register Olympic Names.

The current blocking may be related to the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games. China’s sport authority has banned the issuing of Internet domain names based on the country’s Olympic gold

medal-winning athletes to anyone but the medalists themselves, according to the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC). The General Administration of Sport (GAS) provided the CNNIC with a full list of China’s Olympic team prior to the Games opening on Aug. 8, and had registered all available domain names for athletes in Chinese characters and in Pinyin. Those who had already registered before the GAS order could not keep the the domain names any more, they were forced to give it to the medalist “as a gift”.

Sorry, but I hate racism of any kind!