Sound fishy to you? It did to GoDaddy, too.

"The intent of the new procedures appeared, to us, to be based on a desire by the Chinese authorities to exercise increased control over the subject matter of domain name registrations by Chinese nationals," Jones' testimony states.

And that's not all, either: The testimony goes on to reveal that GoDaddy has been told to apply the new rule retroactively, obtaining photo identification from every existing China customer and supplying it to the government. If someone's data isn't turned over, Jones says, his domains are turned off.

"We are concerned for the security of the individuals affected by CNNIC's new requirements, as well as for the chilling effect we believe the requirements will have on new .CN domain name registrations," the testimony explains.