Archive for the 'Business Development' Category

Aug12th2010

China ICP FAQ

There seems to be a lot of confusion and old information floating around about what is or isn’t an ICP may be and what is needed to get one and then as announced today – additional steps needed during the actual application process.

Aug12th2010

China Government Notice August 2010: ICP Application Process

With new regulations enforced by MIIT, Internet Service Providers are obliged to conform to the current ICP application procedure. Specifications are as follows:

Jul26th2010

Double ICP Needed

Previosuly you would have to decide between a “normal” ICP as needed for all business online properties. Or a “commerical” ICP for doing trades/shopping cart/ecommerce.

Apr19th2010

Google Using Site Speed Ranking & China Based Servers

It is also no secret that the percentage of users in China that would love to use foreign web sites for most of their daily stuff – is quite low. Yes stuff is blocked. But the lion’s share of Chinese speaking people want Chinese sites with Chinese stuff of them. They are located inside China.

Apr7th2010

Cultural Understanding Course (Payment)

A former client of mine who was involved in a new venture recently quizzed me as to whether or not “We require clients to undertake the Cultural Understanding Course” if they do hosting and services with us?

Mar15th2010

The History of Chinese ICP and .CN Requirements

There has been a bit of a maelstrom recently regarding the use of .CN and ICP certificates all on top of the existing confusion.

So to try and set the record straight I am going to give a nice little walk through the pages of history and clearly state the facts of the matter from the inception until the present. And hopefully not only explain what the situation is, yet also how it came about and the anthropology of how we got to the situation that we have today.

Jan13th2010

Is GAPP About To Drop The Hammer On Netease and World Of Warcraft?

Just like the current confusion over .cn, registrations, ICP – ICP by itself let alone in combination with others.  Rules in China are one thing – but this isn’t the first time that two regulators don’t agree and have a pissing match.  Or the rule creation and rule enforcement depts are thinking different things. DigiCha [...]

Dec11th2009

The foreigner with email in China = Poor Communicator

“One of our contributors sent me through an urgent news story in the morning which I
was completely unaware of until the end of the day – when 600 emails
suddenly landed in my inbox.”