Concern about gTLD servers in India

Sun Mar 11 03:53:17 UTC 2012

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 <jof at thejof.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody at pch.net> wrote:
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>> 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 .
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>> 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.
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> 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
>
>

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Suresh Ramasubramanian (ops.lists at gmail.com)