Re: DNS, FSB regulation and zone hosting

Hi Roland,

Well then somebody is already in trouble:

" Copyright 2017 Discovery Limited. Subsidiaries of Discovery Limited are authorised financial services providers"

> discovery.co.za.
Server:  xxx
Address:  192.168.3.4

Non-authoritative answer:
discovery.co.za nameserver = ns1.discovery.co.za
discovery.co.za nameserver = ns3.discovery.co.za
discovery.co.za nameserver = ns2.discovery.co.za

ns1.discovery.co.za     internet address = 185.114.38.188
ns3.discovery.co.za     internet address = 5.152.177.58
ns2.discovery.co.za     internet address = 107.6.4.90


Regards

--Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Giesler
Sent: Tuesday, 26 September 2017 4:06 PM
To: IOZ <[email protected]>
Subject: [IOZ] DNS, FSB regulation and zone hosting

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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