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PLA ready for battle over domain names

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Updated at 5.10pm, Thursday: The People's Liberation Army Daily, is threatening legal action against whoever is using the newspaper's Chinese title as an Internet domain name, the Daily's official Web site, www.pladaily.com.cn, reported on Thursday.
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The military paper's management was furious when they found that other people had registered some of the paper's Chinese character domain names, according to the report. The publication is the official newspaper of the Central Military Committee of China's Communist Party,

'www.pladaily.com.cn is the only army news portal in China, and its names should be well protected,'' newspaper officials said on the site.

''Any ill-intentioned registrations of the army newspaper's domain names or any attempt to make money from these registrations violates the country's defence law,'' the site said, quoting officials.

According to its Web site, late last month the People's Liberation Army Daily tried to register 58 Chinese domain names ending with ''.net,'' ''.com,'' ''.china'' (in Chinese), ''.company'' (in Chinese) and ''.network'' (in Chinese).

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But the paper found that others had registered all these names, the report said.

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