The "Work Plan for Further Implementing the Authenticity Verification of Website Registration Information (Trial)" issued by the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology on February 23, 2010 emphasized that website sponsors need to "face-to-face verification", which will affect the entire website industry, and this will in turn create problems for small and medium-sized IDC companies. What impact will it bring?
1. Customer sources are affected
As we all know, IDC refers to various value-added services provided on the Internet. He includes: applying for domain names, renting virtual hosting space, hosting and other services. According to the person in charge of IDC of Guangxi Yingtuo Network, operators and IDCs in Guangdong, Henan and other places have raised prices one after another, and news has spread in Zhejiang, Sichuan and other places that they will no longer provide virtual hosting services. If individual webmasters want to start a website, In addition to the cost of domain name and host rental, you also have to bear the related travel expenses caused by registration and verification, which undoubtedly makes some webmasters discouraged from starting a website.
Some well-funded webmasters are worried that small and medium-sized IDC companies cannot provide long-term and stable services, and will not choose an off-site IDC to cause trouble. When building a website, they usually choose the services of a well-known and powerful local IDC company to ensure the safety of their website. Able to operate stably for a long time.
2. Unable to retain original customers
Face-to-face verification forces those webmasters to have to travel long distances to the IDC department where the server is located for verification, which invisibly increases a lot of costs. Some individual webmasters even have travel expenses that exceed the cost of building the website. This forces these webmasters to have to move abroad, or Close the website. Original customers with strong financial resources may also take this opportunity to migrate to IDC companies that are more stable and stronger.
3. It is no longer possible to survive relying on the virtual hosting business
Under the impact of the 2008 economic crisis, IDC's enterprise virtual host business and complete machine rental business have shrunk a lot. With the introduction of face-to-face verification policies, companies that originally relied on the virtual host business to survive are directly facing bankruptcy. These companies need to obtain more through other businesses. more profits, or open up new profit points.
4. Accelerate the localization process
Face-to-face verification has prompted various companies or webmasters who are currently planning to build websites to give up the services of remote IDC companies and turn to local IDC companies. This not only saves a lot of trouble, but also saves a lot of costs. This will encourage IDCs to serve the local area. change. The acceleration of localization of IDC services has reshuffled business in various regions. Regions with many local customers have undoubtedly added many opportunities for IDC companies, and some IDC companies have also gained opportunities to grow due to less local competition.
5. After website rectification, IDC ushered in new opportunities
After the website rectification, the surviving websites have developed to a certain extent, and the requirements for IDC services will also increase accordingly. Simple low-price competition can no longer attract customers. Improving service quality is the focus. IDC services will also become standardized and standardization.
The author and the person in charge of Guangxi Yingtuo Network IDC conducted a series of discussions on the above points. It can be seen that the launch of the "Work Plan on Further Implementing the Authenticity Verification of Website Registration Information (Trial)" will make new changes to the entire IDC industry. A round of impact, among which small and medium-sized IDC companies have been most obviously affected. The big wave has hit, and it will take time to test whether small and medium-sized IDC companies can survive this impact and become "real gold".
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