It'd be cool if we could ship internationally. What would be even cooler is if we could inspire entrepeneurs in other countries to tackle it!

I'm in Chile as part of Start-Up Chile. What exactly do you need? PS - I am also a US customer. A block on international traffic effects more than just international customers.

Manpacks.com is a great example of a company that started up to fill the void left when Zappos stopped shipping to Canada.

Ah, I understand now. You mean you want companies to just replicate Zappos outside the US. Any chance that there could be a "Zappos API" where we could while label Zappos, and pick-up the goods at the Zappos warehouse for foreign shipment?

try http://fifty one.com. They seem to be still growing, but facilitate international payments and shipping for a bunch of companies.

Javari (javari.co.uk) is another shoe store owned by Amazon and they do ship internationally (free within EU and Ireland)

I think they developed Javari in most of their European markets and logistics are handled by Amazon themselves.

Zappos is operated completely separately from Amazon so in order to expand internationally they would have to roll their own operations internationnaly.