Shoplifter, please e-mail me you DirectNIC handle, and name and I will have someone look into your claim. ( michael AT hirise dot com)
I sent this thread to Sig, the CEO of DirectNIC and he sent the following back in ICQ
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At directNIC we bend over backwards trying to hold the hands of all of our customers. Unfortunately, we do not set policy for the Peoples Republic of China.
Staff at directNIC would love to respond to Shoplifter's allegations specifically. However, we do not have enough information for a response. What is Shoplifter's real name? What is one of the domain names that Shoplifter attemoted to register?
In searching the directNIC system we found one user associated with the term "shoplifter" in the system. The user never purchased anything from directNIC. However, we have no way of knowing if the shoplifter who posted is the same guy in our system.
If we did not try to register a domain name for "shoplifter" it was most likely because his credit card was declined. That is why many of the .CN domains were not registered.
The one problem with registering "adult" .CN domain names is that the Chinese authority has given very limited specifics to their guidelines on which domain names are acceptible or not. They just delete them at will. After they delete a domain name they will let another individual register the domain name. We can only assume that down the road they will delete the domain name again.
The Chinese authority and Neulevel (the operators of the registry for .CN) refuse to provide refunds for these domain names once they are taken away. We have asked for more guidance from Neulevel. However, none has been provided.
The only thing we can perform is to inform our customers of the principles prescribed in the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China. This information has always been made available to our customers and is included online at http://www.directnic.com/legal/cn_addendum.php
6. Prohibited Uses for .cn domain name. Registrant may not register or use a domain name that is deemed by CNNIC to:
Be against the basic principles prescribed in the Constitution of the Peoples Republic of China ("PRC");
Jeopardize national security, leak state secrets, intend to overturn the government, or disrupt of state integrity of the PRC;
Harm national honor and national interests of the PRC;
Instigate hostility or discrimination between different nationalities, or disrupt the national solidarity of the PRC;
Violate the PRC?s religion policies or propagate cult and feudal superstition;
Spread rumors, disturb public order or disrupt social stability of the PRC;
Spread pornography, obscenity, gambling, violence, homicide, terror or instigate crimes in the PRC;
Insult, libel against others and infringe other people's legal rights and interests in the PRC; or
Take any other action prohibited in laws, rules and administrative regulations of the PRC.
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So if you e-mail me your information, I will personally make sure someone looks into this, and find out what happens. I hope that if it turns out to be a mistake on your end, that you offer a public apology. DirectNIC has worked very hard to create a great brandname, by offering a quality product with great customer support for a fair price!
edited to fix quote brackets.