If I go set up a company in Brazil, or anywhere else, and it's legal and all the fees are paid, then I'm not "fooling" anyone when I ask for a domain name there. if the registration rules permit an existing company to register domain names, or indeed to do any other business in Brazil, then why shouldn't people do it? After all, the same kind of thing is done routinely for trademarks, patents, mining claims, etc. etc. It's as old as the law. Don't treat these "rules" as some kind of Golden Law. I've spent a lot of time in this area and never once have I seen a decent justification for restricting registration to residents only, businesses only, businesses with licenses only, businesses with an account with the local telecom only, people who pass a language test only, people who use a particular ISP only -- etc. etc. Right now the restrictive TLDs in Europe are twisting themselves in knots because -- lo and behold -- the EU law says that you can't restrict trade between member nations, which is exactly what restrictive ccTLDs do. Seems to me there's a lot of finger pointing/shaking going on here without any exploration of why the rules serve anyone's purpose in the first place. On Aug 17, 2010, at 2:41 PM, John R. Levine wrote:
I came across this most interesting company:
https://www.instra.com/en/domain-names/domain-trustee-services
They offer "domain trustee" services. If you want to register in a domain like .BR which restricts registrations to entities in the country, they'll provide a proxy registration in the country so you can evade the rules.
I realize that the rules of ccTLDs are outside ICANN's remit, but since we seem to be opining about ccTLDs anyway this week, what do you think?
If anyone is associated with one of the 21 ccTLD registries they're fooling, I'd be particularly interested in hearing from you.
R's, John
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