Ban on golden domain names
Posted by press , Thursday, 21 August 2008

beijing08logo_110x75.jpgChina Daily reports that China's sports authorities have banned the issuance of Internet domain names based on the country's Olympic gold medal-winning athletes.

Only the athletes themselves will be allowed to register their names. The move is aimed at preventing the commercial exploitation of sports people's names. In 2004, a controversy erupted over the commercial use of the names of gold medalists at the Athens Games, the China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) said.  Read more at: China Daily