On Fri, Feb 23, 2001 at 11:39:09AM +0100, Philip Newton wrote:
> > I actually think that it was worse than that - people had
> > been using the .pm TLD and then AFNIC got a little eggy about
> > it and stopped them.
>
> Which probably explains the number of IP addresses in links on
> http://www.st-pierre-et-miquelon.com/ . One of the IP addresses resolves
> backwards, for example, to spm.pm, but this address doesn't resolve
> forwards.
>
> But how could they use .pm without AFNIC's consent? Isn't it they who feed
> the root servers which enable people to do a DNS query on the .pm zone?
IIRC AFNIC did originally let them register but when the French government
asked them to close the registry (ASKED them, you will note, they were not
under any compulsion to do so) they simply deleted all the domains.
> There was also a site I looked at where someone was complaining about the
> deplorable state of Internet connections that appear to prevail there.
With such a small population there's no incentive for commercial
enterprises to enter the market, which is already saturated by one ISP
(who I hear wouldn't know their bind from their sendmail). And the French
government doesn't give a flying fuck so isn't going to do their duty and
subsidise a good-quality service. And then the fact that the local telco
is France Telecom doesn't help either.
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