.um
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| Introduced | 1997 |
|---|---|
| TLD type | Country code top-level domain |
| Status | Changed to unassigned by ICANN action in 2007 at request of registry |
| Registry | United States Minor Outlying Islands Registry |
| Sponsoring organization | University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute |
| Intended use | Entities connected with United States Minor Outlying Islands |
| Actual use | Has not been in actual use |
| Registration restrictions | Registry site nonfunctional; registrations apparently not possible |
| Structure | No registrations active |
| Documents | |
| Dispute policies | |
| Web site | NIC .um |
.um is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States Minor Outlying Islands. It is administered by the United States Minor Outlying Islands Registry. Originally, registrants could only register third-level domains or higher, but in April 2002 second-level domains became available.
The .um registry site is active as of late December 2006; however, a Google search of .um found only one result—the registry site itself. There is an email address through which information can be requested on the homepage of the registry site, but apparently the registry is only accepting submissions of "interest" at this time, so no registrations in this domain are possible at the present time.
The DNS for the .um domain has for some time had a badly configured setup. ns.isi.edu could be used in a Denial-of-service attack as it is recursive (and at the moment ns.isi.edu is the only nameserver that answers authoritatively out of the three specified at the root), venera.isi.edu is down (and has been for at least 5 months as of now), and ns.uu.net is not configured for the .um domain at all.
In January 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers dropped the .um domain from the master list of domain names in response to the domain's being unused and the desire of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to divest itself of responsibility for the domain.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ Jesdanun, Anick. "Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone", MSNBC (reprint from the Associated Press), 24 January 2007. Retrieved on 2007-03-07.
