Re: bit.ly urls

"Kent Crispin" <kent-ABcQrfC87olWk0Htik3J/[email protected]> Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:35:23 -0700 (PDT)
Newsgroups gmane.org.operators.internet-access
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On Fri, July 22, 2011 21:19, JC Dill wrote:
> On 22/07/11 9:07 PM, Jeff Lasman wrote:
>>
>> On Friday, July 22, 2011 08:49:09 PM JC Dill wrote:
>>
>>
>> > I was hoping to find a registrar that does it. It seems like an obvious
>>
>> > thing for a registrar to do.
>>
>>
>> Sorry I didn't understand when I wrote you offlist. The main reason a
>> registrar can't do that is because just because your IP# resolves to a
>> specific country doesn't mean that's the country you're in.
>>
>
> A)  A registrar could provide results for all the domains that have NO
> restrictions to all queries - the IP doesn't matter, the country doesn't
> matter.

No incentive whatsoever for a registrar to do this.  A registrar only registers
domains in some TLDs, not all TLDs.

>
> B)  The registrar could provide all results, and then flag the ones for
> domains that have restricted registration policies, with a link to each
> domain's policy where people could then check for themselves to see if
> they qualify to register the domain or not.
>
> jc
>
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