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 .
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