AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
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AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
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Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#2Summary (for those not logged into AWS)
Original Request from Feb 22, 2017. AWS person says it has been added as a feature request but no ETA. Occasional updates since then with people requesting and AWS saying "No ETA".
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#3How much does it cost to become a registrar of .at domains?
There's definitely a fair bit of overhead for becoming a registrar of all gTLDs and ccTLDs (there is generally a different application needed for each ccTLD), and for smaller countries the overhead might not justify the number of registrations they expect to get.
I had a quick look at Cloudflare's offerings and it looks like they're only offering gTLDs but intend to expand their ccTLD list.
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#4Anyone 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 at a glance it's just another ccTLD like the more widely supported .de or .ca.
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#5Route53 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 the same has had no effect.
Note that AWS use Ghandi.net for .nz registration (and many/most other TLS) and Ghandi do support .nz 2lds
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#6Last time I checked they do not support Switzerland. TLD is .ch. Fun fact: they are opening a AWS region in Switzerland.
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#7Last time I checked they do not support Switzerland. TLD is .ch. Fun fact: they are opening a AWS region in Switzerland.
I was able to transfer a CH domain into AWS
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#8Some of the registrars are pretty picky about their rules.
I have a .es (Spanish) domain, and it wasn't until quite recently that they stopped asking you to include your passport number or SSN in the WHOIS entry.
A number of registrars wouldn't let you buy the domain without residence in Spain either... Ended up going with a horrible registrar, and I transferred to Namecheap the moment they supported .es domains.
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#9Anyone 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 barriers are higher than the demand Amazon will just say fuck it.
Re: AWS is not offering Austria's TLD .at for registration
#10Route53 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.