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Comments · 9

  1. Wiring the whole city. How last century. by sean.geek.nz · · Score: 1 · on Cities Building Own Fiber Networks

    The tiny pacific island state of Niue has covered itself for wifi.

    So CowboyNeal could sit on the deck of a yacht floating in the lagoon and read Slashdot on his laptop.

    Sean

  2. Re: Would buying a .NU domain help? by mutende · · Score: 4, Informative · on Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow

    Another thing to consider is: A year or two ago the .nu registrar raped the Danish WHOIS server at DK Hostmaster and sent out spam to hundreds, if not thousands, of owners of .dk domains -- including yours truly. For that reason I recommend boycotting .NU Domain Ltd and its affiliates entirely.

  3. .nu? by admbws · · Score: 4, Informative · on ICANN Asks VeriSign To Stop DNS Wildcarding

    NuNames, the provider of domain names for the island of Niue, has been doing this for a long time. Is ICANN ask them to stop too?

  4. Re:dot nu by pne · · Score: 3, Interesting · on Tiny ccTLDs - Who Should You Register With?

    Getting a .nu domain name also pays for

    free or low-cost Internet connectivity for the people of Niue, [...] for technology transfer and education in the Internet and computer use, and other related activities in Niue.

    (From http://www.nunames.nu/about/about.cfm)

    See also http://www.niue.nu/iusn/hist.htm (though the link is down for me at the moment), which gives a history of Internet User's Society Niue and of Internet connectivity in Niue.

    Quote from there:

    Now after a few years of on-line time with world wide email services we are finally on-line with full Internet services to Niue. Our systems continue to improve, and the services have been opened up to all permanent Niuean residents as a no cost service. The traffic has increased, the machines are state of the art, and the demand is following the generation of resources brilliantly.

    Full services have been on-line since June 1999, and we look forward to whatever new developments in telecommunications, health and education that we can provide with the resources being generated by the .nu domain sales. So, if you happen to register a .nu domain, please remember that you are helping to keep Niue on-line in a way that would not be possible otherwise, and you are helping development at the grass roots level in other areas as well. Thank you for that!

    -Richard Saint Clair, Alofi Niue-

  5. .nu by mayar · · Score: 3 · on ICANN Plans Non-English Character Domain Testbed
    If you want to register a .nu domain you can already use the some of these features. "Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, German, Spanish and other Western European language characters, such as å, ä, ö, ç and ñ."

    And worldsnames.net also features Japanese characters, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, Cyrillic.

    Tho one of the nice "features" of the internet is the fact that you have the opportunity to reach a gobal public. Which is rather hard when you have country/language specific characters. my 0.02
  6. Other domains... by pb · · Score: 1 · on Who is the Best Registrar?

    Although I think it's pure evil, you can always get domains in tonga (.to) or niue (.nu).

    It's the internet equivalent of a "1-888" number, except that in this case, it's the little countries that sold out. However, maybe your name won't be taken...
    ---
    pb Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate.

  7. Here's someone who does it right by JBReynolds · · Score: 1 · on NSI Botches Domain Transfer, Says 'Not Our Problem'
    When names lapse in the .NU domain, they can't be reregistered until 30 days later. They are also placed on a list of expired names so that anyone who might be interested in registering them can find out when they will be available.

    If there were similar procedures in place for .com/.net/.org, there would be time to correct mistakes like the one in this case before someone else got the name. ICANN and/or the registries should take action to implement such a policy.

  8. Here's someone who does it right by JBReynolds · · Score: 1 · on NSI Botches Domain Transfer, Says 'Not Our Problem'
    When names lapse in the .NU domain, they can't be reregistered until 30 days later. They are also placed on a list of expired names so that anyone who might be interested in registering them can find out when they will be available.

    If there were similar procedures in place for .com/.net/.org, there would be time to correct mistakes like the one in this case before someone else got the name. ICANN and/or the registries should take action to implement such a policy.

  9. Re:Foreign TLDs? by FreeUser · · Score: 1 · on What Alternative Domain Registrants are out There?
    I use .nu and have been pretty happy with them. $25/year, or as low as $20/year if you register for five years. The only catch is that they charge you $10 for each change, but my DNS servers rarely move so this isn't an issue for me.

    I dumped jean-michel.com in favor of jean.nu, even though the suffix is much less well known -- the difference in service between the folks at .nu and NSI was that significant.