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It has had issues of domains being used for abuse and the registry has aggressively enforced its acceptable use policy by suspending these domains. In June 2013, it announced that it had registered over 250,000 names, excluding those deleted for abuse. The registration figure was helped in large part by growth in China.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/13365-china-pushes-pw-to-over-250000-names China Pushes PW To Over 250,000 Names, DomainIncite.com]Published & Retrieved 10 June 2013</ref>
It has had issues of domains being used for abuse and the registry has aggressively enforced its acceptable use policy by suspending these domains. In June 2013, it announced that it had registered over 250,000 names, excluding those deleted for abuse. The registration figure was helped in large part by growth in China.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/13365-china-pushes-pw-to-over-250000-names China Pushes PW To Over 250,000 Names, DomainIncite.com]Published & Retrieved 10 June 2013</ref>
==Developments==
A few months after the string was made available to the general public, spammers were widely abusing the domain, causing security companies to issue warnings to customers or block the domain wholesale. [[Directi]] stated that it has a zero-tolerance policy to spam and is fighting back, including deactivating about 5,000 domains for breaching its anti-abuse policy. The company also noted that such levels of spam are commonplace since spammers generally start using a new TLDs immediately while the general public is slower to register new TLDs.<ref>[http://domainincite.com/12895-directi-fighting-massive-pw-spam-outbreak Directi fighting Massive Spam Outbreak, Domain Incite] Retrieved 13 Sept 2013</ref>
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