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Data Sovereignty and Locality

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When national legal force meets AFRINIC's regional ledger

AFRINIC's crisis shows why courts, regulators and sanctions rules matter to number-resource records, but also why a regional ledger loses value when legal evidence becomes political veto.

Jul 3, 2026
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Global Cloud Services

Vort Cloud Tests Poland's Control Premium

Vort Cloud is not yet a proof that local Polish cloud can beat hyperscale economics. It is a narrower and more useful test: whether a young Katowice-linked network can sell control, jurisdictional clarity, Polish support labor and BGP intimacy to customers whose workloads are too…

Jul 3, 2026
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP

Tianhai Global Network and the cost of looking global from China

Tianhai Global Network is not valuable because its name sounds international. It is valuable only to the extent that a small China-based network can prove who controls the routes, which jurisdiction stands behind the contract, and why a buyer should treat a sparse global…

Jul 3, 2026
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Europe and Middle East Cloud Services

HOSTKEY's Two Passports: Pricing the Dutch Shell on a Moscow Chassis

Every buyer of a cheap dedicated server eventually asks the vendor the same screening question: where is this company actually from? For HOSTKEY B.V. of Amsterdam the honest answer is a chain of four companies across three jurisdictions, two price lists that mirror each other to…

Jul 3, 2026
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North America Cloud Services

Hostedincanada.com: When 'Hosted in Canada' Is the Product, How a Small Host Sells Jurisdiction, Support Labor, and Trust Premium to the Market

For most infrastructure readers, “hosted in Canada” sounds like a marketing slogan; but for actual buyers—Canadian SMEs, agencies managing hosting for clients, and data-sensitive sectors like healthcare, public sector, and defense supply chains—it is not a slogan but a bundled…

Jun 30, 2026
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Africa Cloud Services

cloud.mu and the Island Cloud Problem

An island cloud, not a hyperscale rival. The most important thing about cloud.mu is that it is not trying to be “the Mauritian AWS”. It is a local hosting platform that sells web hosting, VPS, backups and dedicated servers, focused on jurisdictional familiarity, local support and…

Jun 30, 2026
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Asia-Pacific Regional ISP

Losing the Commodity, Owning the Street: FL ONLINE and the Neighborhood Broadband Economy in Bangladesh

Thesis: The small ISP survives by selling locality, not bandwidth

Jun 29, 2026