On 25/08/05, Hans du Plooy
Kevanf1 wrote:
Isn't the .com designation a special case? I know it's generally attributed to the US but it was this way because it was the first domain. Or am I wrong in this assumption?
Even if it was *meant* that the domain be hosted in the country that the TLD specify, I don't see any way to prevent anyone from hosting whatever TLD where ever they see fit. The beauty of DNS....
Getting a TLD from a different country registered in your name, there's some room for complicating things. But if I buy a .co.za here, I can take it anywhere I wish. A large number of South African companies are hosting their websites in the US and UK, because bandwidth is so much cheaper.
Hans
Doh!!! Of course. This is something that I knew about back in the mists of time and had totally slipped my memory. I recall now (vaguely) reading in a computing magazine about 6 or 7 years ago about somebody asking about the possibility of using a specific countries domain. I think it was one of the lesser known ones at the time. It was for a specific business purpose and the domain tied in with the business name purely in an aesthetic manner. -- Take care. Kevan Farmer 34 Hill Street Cheslyn Hay Staffordshire WS6 7HR