GoDaddy Follows Google Out of China

Domain name company GoDaddy has followed Google's lead in standing up to China's censorship rules.

Author:: Andrea Tse
Publish date:: Mar 25, 2010 7:53 AM EDT

NEW YORK (

TheStreet

) -- Domain name company

GoDaddy

has followed

Google's

(GOOG) - Get Report

lead in standing up to China by making the decision to discontinue registrations of domain names in the country after the government pressured GoDaddy for confidential information on past customers.

The Chinese government has been pressuring GoDaddy to hand over photo and business IDs, and physically-signed registration for every domain ever registered with the company during the six years it has been present in China, according to

Reuters

, which cites Christine Jones, executive vice president, general counsel and corporate secretary for the GoDaddy Group, the parent of GoDaddy.com.

GoDaddy revealed its decision at a congressional commission hearing Wednesday.

Earlier this week, Google

redirected users

of its Chinese Web site, Google.cn, to its Hong Kong site in a protest of China's censorship rules.

-- Reported by Andrea Tse in New York

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