THOUSANDS of Chinese Websites registered overseas could lose their domain names next year because they cannot extend their services after the Taiwan earthquake that severed undersea communication cables.

Several domain name operators said on their Websites yesterday that ".com" services, which need to connect to the United States servers to work, will be virtually offline until the undersea cables are repaired.

Link to the Full Article: http://www1.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/1..._users.htm

Now this is really big news...
i've some friends on the other webmaster forum some of them are from Japan as well you might have heard of that John Scott (V7N admin) he's living in Japan too.. but i am not sure if Japan has been hurted

There are only few domainers and webmasters from china available.. but if you see the internet stats as per hitslog.com it shows that chinese are 2nd number country using the internet

So, they only have one connection to the web from China...? That does not seem likely, does it?

The good news is that it would stop about 50% of all the spam I am getting... :-)

i am not sure i understand this news. is it only affecting people who live in china who own a .com? what if they own a .net? or a .org? or a .cn?

i agree with neilsencl, i can't see how they can only have one pipe to the US. talk about poor planning!