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Aditya Lesmana — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:52:08 +0000

I am not trying to be nationalistic or something along that line of fanaticism. I am just wondering why does ICANN never assign Internet country code top-level domain for Indonesia? In short, I cannot register any top level .id domain. A blatant injustice that should not happen but happens anyway like any other sad unfairness

I do not think it is such a difficult thing to do. United States has .us. Small island nation like Singapore has their own .sg. And in case some of you forget, even island smaller than Singapore (yes, there is such thing) called Tokelau has its famous .tk that contributes to more than 10% of country’s own GDP ;p

To be fair, ICANN has allocated a fair share of second level domain for this country of 200+ million people namely ac.id for academic institution, net.id for communication company, gov.id for government and so on and so on… but come on!!! they are ugly at its best.

Furthermore, from the perspective of usability and user friendly-ness, I believe 99% of the first timer could not distinguish com.id and co.id. One of them is wrong by the way. Of course, in this article, due to lack of time and fund, all numbers mentioned are result of power of groundless deduction, common wisdom of untested hypothesis and unrecorded observation, a.k.a. SMU-BS-Skill.

Why do I suddenly I want to register top level .id domain? Cause I think there will be plenty more cute names that I could think of. Some of them are…

.id – useful to refer to your own website… say aditya.id
.id – for some added cool factor … e.g. hidden, nasty, smart
my.id / ismy.id – for obvious reason
cup.id – isn’t lovely
pa.id - for some accounting application
open.id – for hijacking some famous project

and so and so and so … and obviously the most apt domain name for Indonesia which ends with .id is…

ma.id

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