On Sat, Mar 10, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Bill Woodcock <wo...@pch.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > > On Mar 10, 2012, at 8:05 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: >> Sure, if you can find a datacenter that's capable of handling all the >> traffic, and has staff who are able to provide efficient remote hands for >> huge racks of extremely powerful servers . > > Honestly, we haven't even gotten that far when we've offered to deploy > servers (for instance for domains like .IN) inside India. The bribes that > were requested in exchange for giving us permission to deploy a free service > were, uh, both prohibitive and ludicrous in their enormity.
This. This and the import duties on hardware and the requirement for licensing to operate as an "ISP" makes placing even a modest deployment a lot more work compared to deploying in other neighboring countries. I would presume that Verisign decided that it just wasn't worth the effort to deploy into India. It obviously has a gigantic user base for which getting into local ISPs and IXPs would probably save on transit costs. Perhaps if some local root operators could donate some space/power/connectivity, Verisign-grs could colocate a gTLD cluster there? Cheers, jof
