[FONT=verdana,arial,helvetica,sans-serif]In January, I gave kudos to the Dutch registry SIDN for coming up with a clever solution to open up .NL to registrants that don't have an address in Holland.
Yesterday, the DomainesInfo editorial team got confirmation from SIDN that the plan is going ahead.
The idea is for SIDN to provide a local address directly for those would-be .NL owners who do not have a local presence.
The innovation is that, by opting to be the "mail box" themselves when its needed, SIDN have found a way to kill two birds with one stone.
On the one hand, they do not have to resort to changing the .NL registration rules, something which the local registrar community is opposed to.
But at the same time, they reach their stated objective to give .NL a wider footprint and a greater presence on the worldwide Internet.
According to DomainesInfo's stats, .NL is already the world's 4th largest ccTLD with more than 3.2 million registrations. Thanks to this new development, maybe it will soon be able to challenge #3 (.UK with 7.2 million), #2 (.DE with 12.4 million) or the new #1 (.CN with 13.3 million).[/FONT]
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