internet - Crawler hunts for non-registered sites in Shanghai

Rebecca MacKinnon points at this article of interfax on a new technological goodie by the local branch of the Ministry of Information Industry in Shanghai, hunting at night for not-yet registered websites; Since June & all websites in China need to be registered in a special register. Says Interfax:

Meanwhile, by May 23 of this year, the MII had already received registration applications for approximately 430,000 domain names. However, the new "Night Crawler System" has already located 573,755 websites operating with Mainland Chinese IP address, the MII said, meaning roughly 26% of websites remain unregistered.

Unclear what is next, but I do expect a small exodus to non-Chinese IP-addresses, if that option is open.

Update: Unclear is what percentage of websites have complied and registered. The Blog Herald suggests only 10 percent in China has done so, Interfax mentions 75 percent in Shanghai, based on official (and even less trustworthy) figures.