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How to get international re-directs to a .com?

  • How to get .ru , .cn, .mx, .ve, .br, and possibly other country URLs as a re-direct to my company's .com? The company I work for has a growing international presence, and I'd like to extend our web presence by having "local" URLs with redirects to our company website. Eg. from "myurl.ru", "myurl.mx", "myurl.br", etc. to "myurl.com". We work mostly through independent reps and distributors, and do not have offices or PO boxes in these countries. I'm asking this question mostly from an administrative/business, not a technical, point of view... Is the domain name registration process different when applying for country TLDs? Is it different for each of the above countries? Are there countries in the above list for which I flat-out can't do this? Does the re-direct need to be physically hosted in the TLD country, or can the world's DNSs take care of the re-direct? Any recommendations on registration agencies and hosting companies to use/not use? Thanks!

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    The domain name registration process varies from country to country, and can be downright byzantine at times. You can accomplish the re-direct(s) with CNAMEs in the various zone files. My company ended up using a third-party to handle the local documentation/local presence issues in the various countries where we have an online presence.

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Ah, forget to mention that you might need to do a bit tweaking at your main website. http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum23/1025.htm with a VirtualHost directive. You'd need one entry for each external website.

jquinby

Hi jquinby-- Thanks. What kind of third-party do I look for to handle this? Anyone you would/wouldn't recommend?

ZenMasterThis

It looks like Brazil requires you be a resident to register a domain. On the other hand, it looks like the registrars just avoid this by using a local party to register all the domains. So not much of a problem. Pricey though: $150 or so per year. To the larger question, each country runs its own TLD and so has its own rules. Some are fairly strict and it's very hard to get a domain as a company if the company is not registered in the country. For instance, http://www.register.ie/domain-name-help.html. So you have to do the research on each one. Any domain that's listed at a big registrar like godaddy (like .cn) is easy though.

smackfu

ZenMasterThis - you've got mefi mail.

jquinby

Thanks, jquinby!

ZenMasterThis

Any domain that's listed at a big registrar like godaddy (like .cn) is easy though. Be careful with that. Even if it's offered by larger registrars, most http://www.iana.org/root-whois/index.html still require a local presence. Even better, the large registrar will take your (nonrefundable) application fee, and if your request is denied, you're outta luck. I've found http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain to be a brilliant source of information for particular ccTLDs. Click in the TLD itself to see the rules/details regarding its ownership.

phredgreen

Thanks, phredgreen!

ZenMasterThis

You can register a .mx domain through the only official registrar, http://www.nic.mx. Their site is only in Spanish but you don't have to be a resident.

clearlydemon

Thanks, clearlydemon.

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