Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by belorn 3240 days ago
Quite many registries forbid this and explicitly forbids the registrar to hold domains for their customers. Those that disregard this can lose their registrar status.

It is sadly also common to see ccTLD that require that the legal owner have local presence in the country of the TLD. The way to go around this is to have a legal entity, often a law firm, which then holds the domain. If Njalla uses this, then you the customer don't have ownership, and Njalla do not either, but rather its the law firm.
2 comments
icebraining 3240 days ago
Quite many registries forbid this and explicitly forbids the registrar to hold domains for their customers. Those that disregard this can lose their registrar status.

Right, which is why they say "we're not actually a domain name registration service, we're a customer to these. We sit in between the domain name registration service and you".

link
rlpb 3240 days ago
> It is sadly also common to see...

Why is this sad?

link
teddyh 3239 days ago
Because it doesn’t work. The intention if the ccTLD registry is clear: they only want local businesses and persons to use the domain names in their ccTLD. But as it stands, as a foreign company it is only slightly more expensive to register a domain in such a ccTLD than some other TLD – it does not stop anyone except poorer foreign people from registering, and placing limits on poor people just for being poor never works out well.
link