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New Regulation for ICP Registration 23/03/2010

From now on, one can not point a website to a blank page during the ICP registration process, due to the latest CHINA government’s changed regulation for ICP registration, effective today.

The new regulation, effective 23/03/2010  is:  one can NOT resolve the domain at all until the ICP license has been granted.

The period for ICP registration still is 20 Working Days.

There has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.

So, to try and set the record straight this article is a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explaining what the situation is, but also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.

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