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

Nope. They can target the page at those people, but if those people want to only shop on pages that are French... well then why not let them make that choice?

Now, if an Englishman had a French based buisness (Say he is a resident alien selling chocolates) I do think he should be able to get an .fr page for his buisness. But if he's an Englishman in england who has an international candy company, why should he be able to have a .fr domain when his buisness isn't french at all?

 

Nope, he is a .co.uk

They are here but where they are doing business isn't

In that scenario, having a crappy holding page in every language would be the norm just to get around the system..Also you then need an Internet Police to enforce that no one ever changes their content.

It is actually a huge benefit when operating in a country to gain a level of trust by having your country tld (where documentation is required)

Personally, I don't think this is a politics issue it is a business one

 

This thread does crack me up though since the US has way more restrictions on their tld then France does.

Why aren't you ripping the US a new one?

https://www.enom.com/help/faq_dotus.asp

 

I've registered a .us TLD and was never asked to prove either my residency or my citizenship.

When I move out of the U.S., will I be forced to give up my domain?

 

Im just laughing that you bothered registering a .us at all

hehehehe

Seriously though, you are a US citizen so they wouldn't take it away.

 

Oh, I agree. Country-level TLD's are a joke.

But it made sense when I registered For-President.US.

 

But see, that is exactly my point. Any country domain where anyone can register it is pretty much a joke compared to .com (I suppose .co.uk being the exception) but by giving it some trustability through restrictions, it has its own value.

I love the fact that if I see a business but don't get a chance to write down their web address, I can probably add a .ie to the end and it is them.

Try that with .com and you get a domain squatter most of the time.

Forget that this is France (Since the majority of countries including the US restrict registration of their tld's) and just look at it from a useability standard.

 

Citizenship is transient. I may give up my U.S. citizenship for political reasons.

Will the jack-booted thugs come and take my domain away?

 

Can you give up citizenship and be a citizen of nowhere?

Anyway, according to their own rules, if you are a citizen of Mars and live under the sea, if they do a spot check, yes they will take away your .us domain (legally).

 

You can, but it's hellishly difficult to live as a stateless person.

 

That what I was whining about. Having a right just because one was born somewhere and not having it just because one wasn't born there.

This is a fact and I don't like it. I dislike borders. Thats all. You support it and I undrestand why, any single residence of banana republic would have had the same idea if they were born in France.

All hail to the United State of America, they could have put borders on the internet and brought millions of excuses but they didn't - or at least so far didn't -. what a change they made to the life of every single residence of banana republic.

Another fact that I hate: people of banana republic demonstrate against US, perhaps they deserve France more.

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Actually, no one but the US government can get a .gov site.

 

This isn't bothering me. An American can't get it, A French can't get it, nobody can get it so fair comptetition remains alive. But when a French can get a domain and go at the top of local search engines for say "Nintendo", that bothers me. That reminds me of borders.

 

You are holding up the US as an example of a no borders policy?? Hahahah Have you flown from or to your own country? Have you transferred money in or out?

Anyway, the .us domain has the same restrictions. You seem to keep ignoring that fact. (.com is not a US domain tld)

 

Ummm... it's just a hunch yfs1, but I don't think that mahmood was born in the U.S.

 

I know all you politics guys know each other...lol

I was born in the US and I don't agree with him

 

I hail the United States of America for what it has done and not what it hasn't. Read my comment after somebody mentioned it. We are not living in a perfect word, we have to choose between worst,worse,bad and better, there is no "Good" in the world. Who on earth can ignore the contribution that the United States of America has done and keeps doing to the worlds freedom? - I know who can, everybody who has a tounge, unfortunately people don't pay tax for saying rubbish and this is another fact that I hate. -

By the way,
1. As far as I know search engines don't discrimiate .US over .COM
2. I CAN get a .US, yes I can although I don't have the honour to be living or have a residence status of USA, but for the reason above I am not interested in it.

Again by the way, The USA is really the best example of no border policy in the world but this is not having anything to this topic. I wonder how this issue came into the picture?

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We need more people like mahmood in the U.S.; People of principle and conviction.

 

and ass kissers

 

Oy vey...