Saturday, January 29, 2011

Egypt shuts down Internet - does this hurt ccTLDs value?

I think the recent limiting of access to the Internet by Egyptian officials in effect undermines the value of ccTLDs.  At a minimum it will likely temporarily devalue Egyptian .eg ccTLDs.

This is something that will happen in our country in small chunks.  Certainly they would like to find the holes in the system.  I'm guessing hackers will eventually take a satellite over if they need one for access.

This is another reason gTLDs solidy in value.