Nearly 10,000 Chinese Web site operators have lost the use of their .com Internet addresses due to telecom problems caused by last month's earthquake near Taiwan, state media reported yesterday.
The quake, which severed major international telecommunications lines, caused thousands of .com domain names held by Chinese users to vanish from world registries, the Beijing Times reported, citing domain registry sources.
Lingering disruptions to overseas Web connections also have prevented them from accessing the overseas registries to re-register the names.
"So far, a large number of domain names held by businesses have been snatched by overseas investors, causing businesses to suffer losses," the newspaper said. It provided no examples.
Domain names ending in .com or other suffixes provide easily recognizable names for Web site addresses, which are actually a series of underlying numbers.
Though underlying Web sites are unaffected, the paper said more than 9,000 domain-holders had lost the use of their .com addresses, and the number was expected to grow while the Internet disruptions last.
The undersea quake damaged cables that carry most of the region's telecom traffic, sparking widespread communications dis-ruptions affecting Taiwan, China, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore, South Korea and elsewhere.
Knock-on problems occurred as far away as Australia.
Access in China to overseas Web sites was cut off for several days following the quake. Though largely restored, the connections remain slower than normal.
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