DNS, FSB regulation and zone hosting

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Does the Financial Services regulatory framework in South Africa require
that the zone file for a domain (.com or other non-za domain) be hosted in
South Africa?  I've just had a spat with a person about this and I believe
they are using FUD to manage their client relations, this being a case in
point: The advised a client that it is not compliant with regulation unless
it's hosted inside South Africa.

By it's very nature, DNS records are replicated all over the world, so the
only provisor I would think should be that the owner of the domain has
control over the records, regardless of where the management system or zone
file is.  After all, if someone uses a domain like .ca for a South African
financial services business, the final control of that domain is outside of
South Africa anyway.

On a similar note, would it be in order to host .co.za zone records on an
AWS DNS service as well?  Again, I think this is totally fine, otherwise
not financial services provider would be able use any Google, MS or other
cloud services anyway, not?

regards

*Roland*

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   Does the Financial Services regulatory framework in South Africa
   require that the zone file for a domain (.com or other non-za domain)
   be hosted in South Africa?A  I've just had a spat with a person about
   this and I believe they are using FUD to manage their client relations,
   this being a case in point: The advised a client that it is not
   compliant with regulation unless it's hosted inside South Africa.
   By it's very nature, DNS records are replicated all over the world, so
   the only provisor I would think should be that the owner of the domain
   has control over the records, regardless of where the management system
   or zone file is.A  After all, if someone uses a domain like .ca for a
   South African financial services business, the final control of that
   domain is outside of South Africa anyway.
   On a similar note, would it be in order to host .[1]co.za zone records
   on an AWS DNS service as well?A  Again, I think this is totally fine,
   otherwise not financial services provider would be able use any Google,
   MS or other cloud services anyway, not?
   regards
   Roland

References

   1. http://co.za/

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