TRAFFIC East Orlando: Are Your Domain Names Safe in the USA? Part 2
Posted by Chief Editor , Thursday, 29 May 2008

In this video, Frederick Schiweck, Executive VP of Business Development for EuroDNS , and Managing Director of DomainInvest.com , spoke about how secure it is to keep your domains in the United States at TRAFFIC East in Orlando, Florida last week. He brought up some good points, when he pointed out that Cuban domains of a Spanish travel company have been rectnly blocked in the United States by a US based registrar.

  • A buyer's money was frozen when he bought Burma.net at SnapNames
  • TradeMark complaints are mainly with US registrars.

We have listed more key points below...

Points that were raised on how to choose a registrar and business location:
  • You need a highly strategic positioned registrar in a neutral place, in a very welcoming and safe country.
  • It should be a financially healthy country and of course an ICANN accredited registrar with a solid track record.
  • The registrar and country must have a skilled and multilingual workforce.
  • Registrar must have a good network to registries and attend all ICANN meetings.
  • An excellent basic infrarstructure is a must. (datacenter).
  • flexible and welcoming authorities in the country are always helpful
  • According to world markets research center, Luxembourg is nr1 place to do business.
The reasons listed above and in the video you just saw support our continued recommendation that you should consider EuroDNS as your one stop source for domain registrations.

Source: Video produced by Roland G Buck - Chief Editor at DomainNews.com - May 29th, 2008 - Copyright 2008