The French would have asked a visa for the internet...

Have you ever tried to buy a .fr domain? Don't bother unless you happen to be born in France.

Thanks God the internet was developed in US otherwise it would be another border that some people don't have the right to pass - and the others nagging why it isn't tough enough -.

Yet another reason to hail the great United State of America.

Do I make sense or this is the result of Heineken?

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I heard you also need to be american to buy a .us domain. I'm really not sure about it though, can anyone confirm?

 

http://www.afnic.fr/data/chartes/charter-fr-2007-01-15.pdf

This says you only have to live in France.

 

It's the Heineken.

But TBH I wouldn't want a french tld, prefer the mighty .co.uk over that any day of the week.
Or a .us or .net

 

Well, from what I recall from when I was buying domains from GoDaddy, you have to be a US citizen or corp to buy a .us domain.

 

Noooooooooooooo, BORDERS again....

Lets get another Heineken

 

I honestly don't see any problem with it. It designates a page as being a page from a certain country... so why not put basic protections in place to try to make sure that the pages are in some way associated with at least someone from that nation?

 

always looking for something to blame...right??

 

The problem is that it gives a right to some people just because they happened to be born in a certain country and takes the right from some others just because they were born somewhere else.

Thats the problem.

 

I still don't see it. You don't have a 'right' to have a certain domain extension.

The domain extension designates a page as "a page belonging to a French person, company, or other organization". I applaud efforts to make sure that designator is not corrupted like .org and .com were.

 

Besides, who would want a filthy French domain in the first place?

The French are jokes.

 

I fully support it. We have a similar scheme here in Ireland (as well as higher domain prices). This cuts out domain squatters and means Irish companies can register their name and Irish people can search in Google knowing only Irish based business's will come up.

It makes perfect business sense and I wish every country was the same.

Who wants to pretend they are French anyway?

 

ie these domain extensions were designated to give the right to some people just because they were born somewhere and takes the right from others just because they were born somewhere else.

Only words changes but the problem remains.

 

What problem? The .fr represents exactly what you are talking about. What good is an .fr domain if people in Iowa selling to people in Kentucky have one??

 

Give what right? Take away what right?

The domain designation says "This is a French page, owned by a French something or other". Are you saying we shouldn't have country based domains? Why not?

 

Well my friend, of course you don't see a problem. You are benefiting from it, you said it yourself. You are enjoying not having competitions.

What would you say if you were born in Banana republic?

No hard feeling..

 

What gives you a right to demand my country let you register all its domains? Give me a break I don't want a .us and I don't care if they are only for US business's. I support that too.

 

All the .fr designator does is let people using the Internet specifically search for and use pages that are specifically French in origin. Allowing non-french pages to use that designator defeats the purpose of it.

And all the designator does is provide one piece of information. "This page is french"

 

So... what if you are an Algerian who is building a web site targeted at French customers? No .fr domain for you?

Or, an Englishman building a website targeted at Irish customers? No .ie domain for you?

Isn't it really the web content which should be French (or Irish) -- not the webmaster? Isn't the webmaster almost irrelevant in this context?

Matt Cutts has stated that Google wants webmasters to register country-specific domains for language-specific content. I wonder if he knows that his recommendations are not strictly legal?

 

Oh, and by the way no one has ever been born in Banana Republic (unless they here born in a department store)

If you are actually reffering to Honduras (where the term originates from) then it is .hn