At 09:06 AM 06/01/98 -0400, franko wrote:
>I think we're going to see a lot more small countries selling domain names
>as a way of raising foreign revenue, a la Tonga and now, it appears, the
>Cocos & Keeling Islands. One question I have - is there any reason (legal
>or technical) why a country TLD has to be hosted on a server in that
>country? Could I, for example, have wiredworld.com.au hosted on a virtual
>server in the US which would appear to save me quite a bit of money if the
>rates I've seen on the list are anything to go by.
When I was living in Singapore from 1994-97, there was an issue with the
govt.-imposed proxy servers and the way one ISP was pre-configuring
Netscape that they gave to their customers. If you had, for example, a .sg
domain hosted outside Singapore (which anyone with a brain preferred since
it was a third the cost), that ISPs customers couldn't access it unless
they changed a browser setting that almost none of them knew about. So
effectively, the site was invisible to them. For this reason (among
others), I never registered a .sg domain for my clients.
This was a source of signficant controversy within the Internet community,
which I won't go into here. But it meant that it was foolish to register a
.sg domain and host it somewhere else.
This is just one example of an under-the-surface problem that you have to
watch out for.
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