Leading Chinese web portals, Sina and NetEase, could not be opened for several hours after they posted reports about the company linked to Hu Haifeng.
This means that senders will experience consistent authentication results for their messages at AOL, Comcast, Gmail, Hotmail, Mail.ru, Netease, XS4ALL, Yahoo! and any other email receiver implementing DMARC.
Early in February 2012, China's four key weibo companies – Sina, Sohu, NetEase and Tencent – announced that March 16, 2012, was the deadline for users to adopt their real name identity.