Is Facebook headed to China next? That’s the speculation following the news that the hyped social network has registered the domain Facebook.cn this week. Facebook.com.cn, meanwhile, is registered to someone at a Chinese ISP, and currently redirects to Facebook.com. 100,000 of the English site’s existing users are already in China, says Reuters.
So is Zuckerberg headed into the massive Chinese market, despite allowing blatant Facebook clone Xiaonei.com to run away with the lion’s share of the market and get itself acquired? And will a copy of each news feed be forwarded to the Chinese government?
Not so fast: while a Chinese launch may eventually be on the cards (remember that MySpace is putting its focus on International expansion, including the debut of MySpace China earlier this year), Facebook recently had trouble with the Facebook.fr domain, which now appears to redirect to Facebook. So it’s perfectly possible that Facebook is snapping up those domains it doesn’t yet own. Either that, or Zuckerberg will be making a trip to China in the coming months.
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