Steven’s Cuba Blog

Question about Google and Cuba

October 22, 2005 at 6:54 pm | In Epilogue |

The answer to this is probably painfully obvious, but I would like to ask (I’m opening up [moderated] comments on this post) if anyone knows whether Google’s Cuba search portal has caused any trouble for them, legally. Boris says that it’s no big deal since Google doesn’t “have a presence in Cuba, nor do business with Cubans in Cuba”.

However, Google is still an American company, owning a .cu Cuban domain name. The Cuban state obviously has no problem with this, but wouldn’t this cause problems for them with the U.S. State Department? I thought that it was prohibido for Americans to even own .cu domain names?