Dot Com (.com) or Dot Co Dot id (.co.id)
Posted by Nicko Satria Utama on 26 April , 2007
Many people, forum, service providers and government in Indonesia always argues about it. They always tell the customer or the people about using Dot Com or Dot Co Dot id as a top level domain. They argues and sometimes force to use it in the reason of:
We are Indonesian, so we have to use Dot Co Dot id, not the other else
Service providers like internet or web develoment company argues many things on market, the web become famous, web portfolio or others when they suggest to their customer.
Newspaper, magazine and forum always argues on this.
There is no real solution for this real problem. I just make summary of it:
If choose using Dot Com
- I can register as many as I want depend on my money.
- DNS server is outside Indonesia
- Can use for hosting in Indonesia.
- Most registrant or provider using credit card; most Indonesian credit card cannot use because of “carding”
If choose using Dot Co Dot Id:
- You have to have a taxes number/ NPWP for this.
- DNS server is in Indonesia.
- Cannot use for hosting outside Indonesia.
For my business or personal things I choose Dot Com as TLD for the reason:
It is easy to register, even I will use my credit card or pay more expensive to the registrant to get the domain.
Internet is a WWW not just IWW(Indonesian Wide Web).
I usually use web hosting in USA or europe that is cheaper than Indonesia with the same features.