Huyi Claims Internet Population Explosion

First published: 28^th June 2007

In their sales brochure, Huyi Global Information Resources (Holding) company claims that the Internet Keywords it sells exclusively in Hong Kong provide access to "303,000,000,000 million Netizens". Therefore, according to Huyi, the population of the internet is over Forty-Million times the population of the World!

Other claims made by Huyi that have yet to be independantly corroborated are:

• Huyi has been appointed by China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC), the state network information center of China, as the exclusive Registrar for .CN, .中国, .公司, and .网络 domains and Chinese Internet Keywords in Hong Kong.
• An unnamed company has applied for the domains 銳記.中国 and 銳記有限公司.中国; and the Internet Keywords 銳記 and 銳記有限公司

As a company with a possible interest in those domain names and keywords, Yui Kee was given five working days to object and make a counter-application. We did not object and, after two weeks, the domain names remain unregistered. Is Huyi creating ficticious applications to scare companies into registering unneeded domain names?

Huyi is being asked to comment on this article, we hope to publish their response in due course.

Updated: 28^th June 2007

Jeffrey Poon of Huyi has responded:

Refer to the article in your company's newsletter, I apology for the unclear explanation for the number of Netizens and the translation mistake in the Leaflet (English Version).

The original intention of the message "HK$ 2.4 per day access to 303,000,000,000 million Netizens through Internet browser and partners search engines.", your website will have the opportunity to reach 303,000,000,000 Netizens per month after the Internet Keyword Service is registered.

Please take a look in the Chinese Leaflet attached, which got a clear explaination. And in the mean time, we are going to revise our English version leaflet to avoid misleading.

Refer to the second question, the aproval procedure is handled by CNNIC, there are unsuccessful applications if applicant doesn't provide adequate information relating to captioned domain name. For example, applicant has to divert the domain name to a website which has the "name" shown on the webpage.