You mean you haven't then immediately heard the "we are a developing country, please provide it free" story?
On 3/11/12, Jonathan Lassoff <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bill Woodcock <[email protected]> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA256 >> >> >> On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >>> Sure, if you can find a datacenter that's capable of handling all the >>> traffic, and has staff who are able to provide efficient remote hands for >>> huge racks of extremely powerful servers . >> >> Honestly, we haven't even gotten that far when we've offered to deploy >> servers (for instance for domains like .IN) inside India. The bribes that >> were requested in exchange for giving us permission to deploy a free >> service were, uh, both prohibitive and ludicrous in their enormity. > > This. > > This and the import duties on hardware and the requirement for > licensing to operate as an "ISP" makes placing even a modest > deployment a lot more work compared to deploying in other neighboring > countries. > > I would presume that Verisign decided that it just wasn't worth the > effort to deploy into India. > It obviously has a gigantic user base for which getting into local > ISPs and IXPs would probably save on transit costs. > > Perhaps if some local root operators could donate some > space/power/connectivity, Verisign-grs could colocate a gTLD cluster > there? > > Cheers, > jof > > -- Suresh Ramasubramanian ([email protected])
