During the Beijing 2008 Olympics, GoDaddy.com, the world’s largest domain name host has been blocked from being accessed in China. This has caused commotion among a large number of Chinese online entrepreneurs who cannot access their account. Those who are selling domain names weren’t able to do business for almost a month and some went through alot of inconveniences to renew their registration.
According to reports, GoDaddy.com was blocked during the Olympics to prevent Chinese nationals from registering domain names after the names of Chinese athletes who won (Gold, Silver or Bronze) in the Olympics. The Chinese government has a policy of protecting famous names from being registered and allows only the owner the right to register it as his/her domain name.
If domain names were to be registered outside China, it will be difficult for the Chinese government to retrieve them. Hence, GoDaddy.com, which is US-based and not to mention the largest, was blocked.
There were speculations that the blocking of GoDaddy will be permanent. But today, I visited GoDaddy.com and there it was.
What’s really surprising is the fact that Blogger (Blospot) wasn’t blocked during the duration of the Olympics considering the thousands of blogs criticizing China’s hosting of the 2008 Olympics. I just hope that the Great Firewall doesn’t block Blogger blogs anytime soon. 
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If you want in I own GreatFirewall.ws What’s funny is it’s parked at Godaddy.com for now. Shoot me an email and we could do a simple account change via Godaddy.com
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That’s really a good domain name. I just sent you an email.
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