internet - MII announces closure of non-registered websites

The Ministry of Information Industry (MII) has announced on Friday it will close down all not registered websites. I learned this from the headline service of Chinabiz, that found the announcement in the China Daily. Temporarily closed down websites would get a grace period to register after the deadline that ends on June 30.
The registration drive has already costs quite some mayham and the estimations are that 25, 30 percent of the websites have not registered. Hosting services, like those for weblogs, can register on behave of their users, the article says. The measure might cause a major dent in the revenue stream of ISP - who are all government-owned - when large numbers of not-registered websites are forcefully kicked off.