Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) received approval from China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) to become a domain name registrar in December, 2007, reports zunmi.com. According to the report, Baidu applied to become a .cn registrar in September of last year.
Quadrille
11:06 am on Jan 18, 2008 (gmt 0)
A sensible move for any large organisation - protects future plans and avoids standard industry ripoffs!
Lord Majestic
11:40 am on Jan 18, 2008 (gmt 0)
Maybe they just want to get complete whois info on .CN domains to weed out spam?
mrMister
12:07 pm on Jan 18, 2008 (gmt 0)
Yes, I agree with Lord Majestic. I don't think they're planning to sell domains, I think they've become a registrar for the same reason Google did... to gain access to the full WHOIS information.
np2003
2:10 am on Jan 19, 2008 (gmt 0)
yep I agree as well, in this day and age search is trying to get smarter and smarter, getting full whois data means they can be on the bleeding edge of content freshness.
water2filter
2:49 am on Jan 21, 2008 (gmt 0)
Baidu have very largest markets from China of internet. and now it become strong and strong. and its main focus on youngman and amusement.
