> Anyone have some insights on what a registrar usually needs to do to add a country's TLD? ccTLDs are the Wild West. It's hard to generalize -- practically ev

> Anyone have some insights on what a registrar usually needs to do to add a country's TLD? ccTLDs are the Wild West. It's hard to generalize -- practically every ccTLD does something weird that makes it difficult to support, though. A few examples of areas where ccTLDs behave significantly differently from gTLDs are: • Many ccTLDs require registrants to have some form of personal or business presence in the country. The requirements for how the registrant must prove that presence can vary. • Some ccTLDs have unusual processes surrounding domain expirations and renewals. For example, under some ccTLDs, domains always expire at the end of a month, rather than exactly a year after registration. Additionally, some ccTLDs restrict when domains can be renewed -- for example, .au domains can only be renewed within 90 days of their expiration, and .eu domains cannot be renewed within 5 days of expiration. • Domain transfers can get weird as well. gTLDs have a standardized process for domain transfer authorization; ccTLDs often modify this system or replace it entirely.