>
>Tangent Computing Ltd., Shepherd's software distribution company, was
>bounced off the World Wide Web in late July by Japanese authorities after
>he switched to a U.S.-based Internet service to host his company's e-mail
>accounts. It seems that a group of Japanese-based Internet providers,
>operating with the approval of the government, controls who gets to play --
>and how much they pay -- to get access to the World Wide Web in Japan.
>
It was the same thing years ago, a Compuserve account allowed me to get my
email everywhere in the world, except in Japan, where a special message
came up that said: you cannot avail of email services here.
I would actually have to subscribe to Niftyserve in order to get my mail.
But what does the article mean with web access?
>``Basically, we were shut down for not using a Japanese Internet
>provider,'' said Shepherd, a Canadian, who does 90 percent of his software
>distribution business through the Net.
>
What does Shepherd mean by "shut down"?
>Dozens of entrepreneurs such as Israeli businessman Todd Walzer have found
>they could not use their Internet addresses in Japan -- known in Internet
>parlance as a ``domain names'' -- unless they also used a Japanese Internet
>service provider. Japanese firms, however, are usually slower and far more
>expensive than overseas providers, foreign businessmen say.
>
Somebody doesn't know what he is talking about.
I guess that this means that you cannot get a .jp domain, unless through a
hosting arrangement.
So why would a foreign firm want to have a .jp domain, if he can get any
other and for a lot less?
The big problem is, and not only in Japan, that the second level domain
names are given out by racketeers, who have appointed themselves into a
lucrative monopoly, by asking IANA to give them (delegate) the top level
(country code) domain.
In some countries these racketeers are government employees, who give
themselves resounding titles, but are not accountable to anyone exept in an
informal way to their friends in government.
Formally, the governments are not accountable for any domain name policy,
because formally they are not involved.
For the .com, .org, .net TLD's this is about to change, with the U.S.
government starting to take charge.
An open question is wether this will mean US jurisdiction over .com domains.
Joop Teernstra
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