Tuesday, January 15, 2008

Why Indonesia local TLD isn't so popular ?

Indonesia as part of global networking has its own top level domain (TLD).
1. co.id, is for company and business institution.
2. or.id, for non-profit organization
3. ac.id, for school and educational institution
4. go.id, for government and its related offices.
5. net.id, for internet related institution
6. web.id, for personal sites

Among these TLDs, there's common problem which can only be registered by person or company who has Indonesia Tax Number (NPWP) and strong reason why need to register the name. Simply no room for these personal domain and occasional domain registration. Have you think of to register i-love-blogging.co.id instead of i-love-blogging.com ? Even some government promotion are registered to dotCom domain!

Beside that, manual processed registration procedure makes only a professional can understand the form and fill it correctly. But some of these complicated procedure are taken care by hosting company. But everytime you need to make changes to these data, always have to ask your hosting company to do it. Although, some hosting company has their own control panel for client to manage. But what if we want to relocate the hosting ? Ooppss.

That's why when we need a domain to hook our promotion or project, Indonesia local TLD would never come as first choice. So, I'm calling Indonesia internet authorities, let build a strong management to handle this domain registration business. And I believe, this is a really potential business the worth to manage professionally and will produce a significant incomes.

What do you think ?

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hello, I don't see why Indonesia does not allow registration for ".id". For example, solar.id

says said...

I'm personally sure that's beyond technical issue. As i wrote, the ID TLD hasnt managed by professional.

I'd suggest people who manage the TLD, PANDI, to open it. There's unlimited potential in it.

Some neighboring countries are open the country's TLD for non-companies registrar, eg. personal sites.

Hans Hamid said...

Setuju,

Dari dulu sampai sekarang pelayanannya tidak berubah.

Yang paling ngeselin kalau mendaftarkan domain baru: sudah upload ktp, tapi masih diminta lagi via email.

Dan control panel untuk manage domainnya nggak asik, nggak ada pilihan untuk bikin child name server, nggak bisa ngedit mx record, dsb...

Nampaknya pemerintah belum kunjung sadar kali ya?

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