China Internet Network Information Center has published a new statistics report, stating that there were 250 million microblog users in China by the end of 2011, a year-on-year increase of 296%.

The China Internet Network Information Center has published a report on the activities of Chinese group buying users for 2011 in Beijing, stating that by June 2011, there were 42.2 million online group buying users in China, an increase of 125% compared with six months ago.

China Internet Network Information Center has published the 27th China Internet Development Report, stating that by the end of December 2010, the number of Chinese netizens had reached 457 million, an increase of 73.3 million compared with the same period in 2009.

The China Internet Network Information Center has published its 26th report on the development of the Chinese Internet.

China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology has issued to domain name registrars a circular which asks further work to be done to verify the registration information of websites in the coming weeks.

Baidu Wireless, a service of Chinese search engine Baidu, has signed a proposal letter with about a hundred of mobile internet service providers in China — including Sina.com — on creating a green mobile Internet.

According to the latest report published by China Internet Network Information Center, in 2009 the China's online travel booking sector usage reached 30.24 million people, an increase of 77.9% compared with the previous year.

According to information from foreign domain name registration service providers, China Internet Network Information Center has required these providers to suspend new registrations for .CN website domain names.

The China Internet Network Information Center has announced that it has increased the price for .CN domain names, and the new price policy went into effect on January 1, 2010.

In the midst of a clampdown in China on domain name registrations, Chinese business-to-business online company Alibaba.com has completed its share purchase agreement of a local website domain name registrar.

News from China Internet Network Information Center is that CNNIC has published an online complaint reporting service to encourage Internet users to report issues related to bad domain names in an effort to purify the online environment for teenagers in China.

Liu Jie, deputy director of Bureau of Telecommunication Administration, Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, has disclosed to local media that MIIT will initiate five measures to regulate the registration of website domain names in the coming weeks.

According to China Internet Network Information Center, the national domain name complaint center in China, by 8:00 on December 14, 2009, it had closed and revoked registrations of 699 Chinese website domain names that involved pornography.

Chinese domain name supervision organization China Internet Network Information Center announced that starting from 21:00 on December 14, 2009, it closed domain name registrations for individual users who are not purchasing domains on behalf of companies or organizations.

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