The population is 33k, and my registrar (Gandi) has to email someone just to change a nameserver... it can (and has) taken weeks.
I actually think this is a benefit; in an age where the domain is the key to securing everything there is a view that too much automation and too low a price results in too lax security. A race to the bottom in terms of price means every other corner is cut.
The best registrars for security are those that are expensive, slow, manual, bureaucratic, officious. Hell, last time I tried a nameserver change it took 6 weeks and several confirmations of identity - interacting with a country office certainly forces ass-covering of the highest nature.
I'm a fan of slow, stupid and manual but of course... security is different from the whole Verisign .com .net mess.
.sm is the Most Serene Republic of San Marino and even on a map of Italy it is little more than a dot https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/San_Marino#/media/File:Locatio...
The population is 33k, and my registrar (Gandi) has to email someone just to change a nameserver... it can (and has) taken weeks.
I actually think this is a benefit; in an age where the domain is the key to securing everything there is a view that too much automation and too low a price results in too lax security. A race to the bottom in terms of price means every other corner is cut.
The best registrars for security are those that are expensive, slow, manual, bureaucratic, officious. Hell, last time I tried a nameserver change it took 6 weeks and several confirmations of identity - interacting with a country office certainly forces ass-covering of the highest nature.
I'm a fan of slow, stupid and manual but of course... security is different from the whole Verisign .com .net mess.
That .sm per year? GBP 263.25
https://www.gandi.net/domain/price/detail/sm/
$10 really isn't much.