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Ask HN: Is it possible to buy a .er (Eritrea) domain name?

2 points by beervirus ↗ HN
Everything I’ve read online says that it is not possible, but everything I’ve read is years out of date. I’m really hoping there’s a way to happen, because I have a good name in mind ending with .er

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dustoid
my last name ends in er, i want that vanity url
ev1
It's interesting that Eritrea's only ISP (there is only one ASN assigned to ER), EriTel, is apparently only connected to the rest of the world by China: https://bgp.he.net/AS30987#_peers

Even the few scattered .gov.er domains appear to be using some US-based single person(?) consultancy for nameservers, presumably for reliability.

If you Bing for .er, there's nothing other than an EriTel site that takes ten minutes to load, and a bunch of outdated webmail interfaces.

Does the country even have wired service at all? A traceroute to the only ASN in Eritrea is over 1200ms from the US and contains hostnames like 'asia-broadcast-sat' or 'absatellite.net'. 2G mobile calls within the country are $0.20/minute and a 64 kbps connection is USD$300 a month.

The retail site on Eritel advertises 9 megabit down, 1 megabit up for $16000/m. This is "new pricing" updated 2018.