Email Addresses In Thailand.

[david96]

Can any TV members give any reason why email addresses use Hotmail, Yahoo and Google G mail in Thailand?

Even companies and businessess use these addys. It would appear that Thai ISPs do not have provision for an email account. Would you do business on the internet with a customer with a web based address?

[solent01]

Thai ISP's do have the provision, [email protected] as an example. No I would not do business with a company that has a web based mail addy.

[david96]

Thai ISP's do have the provision, [email protected] as an example. No I would not do business with a company that has a web based mail addy.

Correct me if I am wrong but does not .com indicate it is in the US? Thailand would be .com.th or .co.th

Australia is .com.au

[LivinLOS]

I regularly see multi million USD villa projects being advertized with a @hotmail type contact point. Its like advertising your business with a 'meet me in the pub' or send mail 'care of the Kings Arms' etc.. So unprofessional.

To be honest on a business deal I would also cringe almost equally at using a @thaiISP.com as well.. Even for my private non business dealings I use [email protected].

[MarkBKK]

Thai ISP's do have the provision, [email protected] as an example. No I would not do business with a company that has a web based mail addy.

Correct me if I am wrong but does not .com indicate it is in the US? Thailand would be .com.th or .co.th

Australia is .com.au

No. To quote RFC 1591 (one that I happen to have handy): 'COM - This domain is intended for commercial entities, that is companies. This domain has grown very large and there is concern about the administrative load and system performance if the current growth pattern is continued. Consideration is being taken to subdivide the COM domain and only allow future commercial registrations in the subdomains.' (And that was in 1994 ...)

A non-commercial address (that doesn't have its own TLD name, e.g. .edu) should end in an ISO 3166 two letter country code, i.e. .us for the US. The ''.COM.XX'' construct now seems to be referred to as an ''error'', but it used to be termed an ''abuse''.

There were only two TLDs specifically reserved for the US, .GOV and .MIL. RFC 1591 (and its predecessors) is interesting if you want to see how things should/might have gone ...

Some or all of this this may have changed recently (or not so recently). I sit at the back and don't pay much attention.