Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 10:00:28 -0800 From: Renaud Waldura <rwaldura@LIGOS.COM> To: "'muditha@seychelles.net'" <muditha@seychelles.net>, Archie Cobbs <archie@whistle.com>, jivko@ijs.com Cc: isp@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Help registering domain name in France? Message-ID: <9141909996F1D011B8FF00A0C95A661B2E0924@server.ligos.com>
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The French are incredibly stuck up about their DNS; they will only give away .fr domains to French ISPs, for French companies, _with_proof_. Or something like that, their policies also change frequently; check out http://www.nic.fr/. I'm reading it right now (it's of course in French), here are at some excerpts: * a foreign company CANNOT get a .fr domain, it has to be French. The best you can get as a foreign company is .tm.fr (trademark) _if_ your name is a genuine brand name * you have to use an ISP (French obviously). No direct request to AFNIC (French Internic) * as a result, domain name price may very depending on ISP * one (French) company can have only one .fr domain name Their policies try to prevent DNS speculation (as seen at Internic), but go totally overboard in paranoia. That's France for you. --Renaud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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