For all of those slagging off Malta: Try to register a .fr or .jp domain for example. France or Japan do not even allow you to register a domain unless you have a French or Japanese address (or pay someone a significant fee to do it on your behalf). There are plenty of other ccTLDs that do this. Domains do not fall under common EU rules either - every country has the right to do more or less whatever it pleases.
Malta is actually not the worst in this aspect. If there are ever problems with the domain, you will *really* appreciate the extra identity verification step. Just my two cents :-) Angelo -----Original Message----- From: Keith Vassallo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 10 January 2011 19:47 To: Malta Linux User Group - general list Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Nic.com.mt ccTLDs have all the right to be more restrictive on their assignments. Although not fashionable, it makes sense if they want, for example, a .com.mt to actually be a Maltese company - they're basically sticking by the non-existent book. Of course, in the real world .com and others are used for everything, including pictures of your neighbour's cat. But they're academics, so cut them some slack. K On 10 Jan, 2011,at 06:58 PM, Angelo Dalli <[email protected]> wrote: > Whois is at: https://www.nic.org.mt/dotmt/whois/ > > 3 days is a long time - comparable to registering domains in > non-mainstream TLDs. The main problem with Malta's NIC is that they > insist on verifying identity via a manual signatures - this is > arguably more secure and results in fewer complaints, but takes longer to > setup. > > I am not associated with NIC Malta in any way btw :-) Take it up with > them > :-) > > Best, > > Angelo > > -----Original Message----- > From: Artis Schlossberg [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: 10 January 2011 18:25 > To: Malta Linux User Group - general list > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Nic.com.mt > > If it takes 3 days just to register a domain name, one can hardly call > it "smooth". > > By what standards? > > Other NICs have automatic on-line processing systems. What's up with > Malta's NIC? > > They also seem to not comply with standards and are not running a > WHOIS service. > > Regards, > Artis > > On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 17:19, Angelo Dalli <[email protected]> wrote: > > You also need to apply for a handle first. Once that is done, the > > process > is > > quite smooth - takes around 3 days or so. > > > > Angelo > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Iain [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: 09 January 2011 19:04 > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [LINUX.ORG.MT] Nic.com.mt > > > >> Has anyone else registered a .com.mt domain? I'm being given a > >> whole run around getting things done with the people at university, > >> and its really starting to piss me off, not to mention the client i'm > >> doing work for _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
