At first, I read a news on January 5 that talked about some 10,000 domain names lost due to the disruption caused by the Taiwan earthquake.

From this article, the China International Network Information Center said about 10,000 Chinese users were unable to update data about their dotcom domain names and failed to re-register on expiry of their domain times.

But a recent update on this story from another article is China’s domain name managers and Internet service providers refuted on Friday recent media reports about the loss of domestic domain names.

My view is that which news is indeed, a true story is no longer important here. The most important is for the domain holders, we must act proactively in protect the domain names we owned by renew the domain name before it goes expires, and this is not just about a good practice, it’s a responsibility to the readers and the users as well.