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@AWS my 5cents: adding many more TLDs is one of the highest ROI investments you can make.
The reason we're not using AWS is because we couldn't switch our entire network of a few thousand .at domains over here easily. It would have meant months of work. So we went with a competitor. @AWS my 5cents: adding many more TLDs is one of the highest ROI investments you can make.
You can always manage any domain with Route53, but registrations are only supported for these TLDs.
Route53 seem to have some weird gaps. For instance .nz (New Zealand) originally only allowed people to register 3rd level domains ( like company.co.nz or network.net.nz ). This changed in 2015 and you can now register 2lds like company.nz or network.nz but AWS still hasn't updated their system. It means my employer has to have a 2nd registrar just for those domains. Nagging our TAM and asking other companies to do th…
Is that really a big deal though? Register the domain, point the name servers, job done for 5 years.
Last time I checked they do not support Switzerland. TLD is .ch. Fun fact: they are opening a AWS region in Switzerland.
The reason we're not using AWS is because we couldn't switch our entire network of a few thousand .at domains over here easily. It would have meant months of work. So we went with a competitor. @AWS my 5cents: adding many more TLDs is one of the highest ROI investments you can make.
Is domain registration a big part of your hosting world? Surely anyone can register a domain with anyone and point DNS?
Anyone have some insights on what a registrar usually needs to do to add a country's TLD? Sounds like it might be the kind of problem that's simple on paper but in practice requires jumping through all kinds of regulatory hoops for each new country. It does seem to be pretty common for registrars to be missing ccTLDs - .ai (for Anguilla), for example, is not supported by some registrars even though it's popular and a…
Each country has its own regulatory requirements. When I tried to register a dot-ai ~15 years ago it seemed like one guy who did it once a week would take paper checks only. If Austria demands a valid Austrian ID number, Amazon would have to build an app to request this, validate it against the Austrian database, provide data security guarantees to the Austrian government for using this information, etc. If the barri…
On the other hand, .com.au for example requires a valid Australian business registration number for domain registration.
Anyone have some insights on what a registrar usually needs to do to add a country's TLD? Sounds like it might be the kind of problem that's simple on paper but in practice requires jumping through all kinds of regulatory hoops for each new country. It does seem to be pretty common for registrars to be missing ccTLDs - .ai (for Anguilla), for example, is not supported by some registrars even though it's popular and a…
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Is that really a big deal though? Register the domain, point the name servers, job done for 5 years.
It isn't just one domain. Big companies can have hundreds or thousands. Having a few percent of these with another vendor means you have to have additional bills (and get those through accounts), logins and the like.