On Thu, Jun 1, 2023 at 11:44 AM Tim via users <users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2023-06-01 at 11:15 +0930, Tim via users wrote: > > Trying to find decent and affordable hosting in my country is an > > exercise in frustration. Trying to find one that's actually in my > > country is difficult > > Realising, after the fact, I hadn't mentioned I'm in Australia, during > this thread... > > There's a couple of aspects to wanting local hosting service, apart > from the obvious of wanting to deal with locals and no overseas call > centres. Google will consider my site is Australian if I have an > Australian IP address, or an Australian top-level domain name. And can > return my site as an answer for queries that want local answers, > instead of discarding it as overseas. I checked with Ionos support. They said they have a presence in Australia. I pointed out Australia was not listed in the location drop-down to select a datacenter. There's probably an internal process to select Australia for your datacenter. > I don't have a .au TLD. You can get personal id.au domain names > without too many hurdles to jump through, but I don't want one of them > (a website in my own name). All the other .au (com.au, net.au, org.au) > domain names required an Australian Business Number, or other similar > business registration, I don't have one of them, nor want to get one. > So having an Australian IP address is the only way to make Google thing > my .com address is Australian. > > Most people around here don't understand the purpose of these various > top-level subdomains and think that most sites are either simply > .com.au or .com, so bucking that trend works against you. > > While it's a good thing that our name registration system knuckled down > and insisted that .com.au was only used for commercial sites, likewise > with .net.au for business, there's asn.au & .org.au for non-profit > associations and charitable organisations, etc. Using them for their > intended purposes. It's a shame that they didn't have the foresight to > have a general-purpose top domain, having .net.au simply for something > that's on the net would have been a good idea. > > Only recently (end of last year) they seem to be opening up .au by > itself for uncategorised purposes, but registrars are price gouging it. OpenSRS charges $12.50 USD for the various *.au names. I don't know about the vanity domain names based on ccTLDs, however. It may be worthwhile to get an OpenSRS reseller account. I have one because I got tired of companies trying to gouge me in the US. Now I handle my own registrations for a fraction of the cost. Jeff _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
