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Re:Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. by nodata on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:03AM (#3191761)

A Somalian domain means that I will never use this service: the country is not politically stable enough. Sorry.

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Re:Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. by abailin on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:31AM (#3191893)

How does a country's political stability affect what domain names you will use?

The nameservers for the .so domain are not physically located in Somalia: http://www.zonecut.net/dnsgeo/SO..html

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Re:Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. by bmj on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:36AM (#3191916)

Because the trustee of the domain (which one would assume would be an organization within the country) has administrative rights for the domain. And that trustee can decide to require local presence to use that TLD, which might leave this particular service offline, at least for a time.

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Re:Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. by cageface on Thursday November 03, 2011 @10:52AM (#3192017)

You missed the shenanigans around Libya and the .LY domain, I guess?

http://workbench.cadenhead.org/news/3503/bitly-builds-busine...

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Re:Castle.so Upload and share your files, beautifully. by nobody31 on Thursday November 03, 2011 @11:38AM (#3192241)

It does however tend to color your judgement about how professional and reliable this service is. If they risked their future on the stability of the Somalia domain registry - just so they could have a quirky domain name.

Calling yourself slashdot is funny if you are a geek site - worrying if you are my pension fund.

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