Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists () gmail com>]

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 () thejof com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody () 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.
>
> 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 () gmail com)