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.um
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. 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]) is located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA. USC is one of the worlds leading private research universities, and was founded in 1880, making it California... ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ... The flag of the United States is used for all of the United States Minor Outlying Islands The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions: All of these islands are in the Pacific Ocean except Navassa Island... A top-level domain (TLD) is the last part of an Internet domain name; that is, the letters which follow the final dot of any domain name. ... A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is a top-level domain used and reserved for a country or a dependent territory. ... The flag of the United States is used for all of the United States Minor Outlying Islands The United States Minor Outlying Islands, a statistical designation defined by ISO 3166-1, consists of nine insular United States possessions: All of these islands are in the Pacific Ocean except Navassa Island...


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 computer security, a denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. ...


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] ICANN is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. ... The University of Southern California (commonly referred to as USC, SC, Southern California, and incorrectly as Southern Cal[1]) is located in the University Park neighborhood in Los Angeles, California, USA. USC is one of the worlds leading private research universities, and was founded in 1880, making it California... ÂÂThe Information Sciences Institute (ISI) of the University of Southern California is involved in a broad spectrum of information processing research and in the development of advanced computer and communication technologies. ...


References

  1. ^ Jesdanun, Anick. "Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone", Delaware News-Journal (reprint from the Associated Press), 24 January 2007. Retrieved on 2007-01-24.

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

  • IANA .um whois information
  • United States Minor Outlying Islands NIC
  • DNS Report on the .um domain

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