A Website Featuring The Lives And Works Of National Artists Is Opened

[Jai Dee]

A website featuring the lives and works of national artists is opened

The Office of the National Culture Commission (ONCC) has opened a website boasted to be a rich source of information about 163 national artists.

ONCC secretary-general Prissana Pongthadsirikul (ปริศนา พงษ์ทัดศิริกุล) said all that the public want to know about all these national artists is just one click away at www.thaiich.com.

Mrs. Prissana said the website features bio-data of the artists and their works in the fields of literature, visual art, performing art and architectural art in the forms of photographs and video clips.

She said the works of these 163 people, named national artists between 1985 and 2004, are national treasures that Thais should be proud of.

Source: Thai National News Bureau Public Relations Department - 30 June 2006

[astral]

I wonder why the web site is based in the USA with a .com.

Doesn't the government know how to host a web site in Thailand,

or is it just an admission that the Thailand bandwidth sucks?

[Chang_paarp]

I wonder why the web site is based in the USA with a .com.

Doesn't the government know how to host a web site in Thailand,

or is it just an admission that the Thailand bandwidth sucks?

Anyone can apply for the the .com suffix, the yanks think it is their domain, they have .com.us but rarely use it. A .com can be hosted anywhere.

DNS:

ns1.thaiich.com

ns2.thaiich.com

Created: 2006-05-11

Expires: 2007-05-10

Last Modified: 2006-05-11 11:48:53

Registrant Contact:

Emwork Group Co.,Ltd.

Prapan Surapapa ([email protected])

Emwork Group Co.,Ltd.

Dindang, Bangkok, th 10400

P: +662.###### F: +662.######

Administrative Contact:

iBiz Network Co., Ltd.

Domain Administrator ([email protected])

251/117 Soi47/2 Moo3 Ramkhamhaeng Rd.

Sapansung, Bangkok, th 10240

P: +662.####### F: +662.#######

Looks like this is run out of BKK and maybe hosted too.

Maybe the people putting this site together did not want the trouble involved in getting a .com.th URL.

Edited July 1, 2006 by Chang_paarp

[astral]

Well the site does not exist so far.

The WHOIS record is there, but that is all.

A ping of www.thaiich.com says the name does not exist and the same

applies to the name servers.

Can anyone see it?

[phibunmike]

Well the site does not exist so far.

The WHOIS record is there, but that is all.

A ping of www.thaiich.com says the name does not exist and the same

applies to the name servers.

Can anyone see it?

Still can't see it - seems like not in the DNS...

[astral]

The web site is still not working.

18th August 2006

[Jai Dee]

Perhaps a premature announcement...

Even most of the English version of the home website of the Office of the National Culture Commission (ONCC) seems to be under construction...

Look here

I couldn't find any links on the Thai version here.