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How Do You Register A .EDU Domain?

Posted by Cliff on from the for-educational-outlets-only dept.

toolz asks: "Can anyone here tell me how one can register a .EDU domain for a legitimate school? I have searched Network Solution's site, and came up with zero refs. Ditto for all of the other registrars. Has .EDU gone underground or what? Would be grateful for a heads-up on this."

17 comments

  1. Through the normal channels... by King+of+the+World · · Score: 5
    14. What are the guidelines for registering an .EDU Web Address?

    Registrations in the .EDU domain are reserved for colleges and universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level, or its foreign equivalent. Each college or university may register only one .EDU Web Address. Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc., cannot obtain a .EDU Web Address of their own. Instead, they should obtain a third-level domain beneath the second-level domain of their institution. Inquiries should be directed to the registrant of the second-level domain.

    Inquiries should be directed to the registrant of the second-level domain. If the college or university registering the Web Address meets this criteria, it must provide a brief explanation of the kinds of degrees awarded under "Purpose/Description" on the registration form.

    Many foundations, institutions, consortia, centers, etc., that have educational missions but don't meet the criteria for a Web Address registration in the .EDU TLD register their Web Addresses under the .ORG TLD. K-12 schools and community colleges are typically registered under country domains such as .US.

    -- /help/faq-newreg-enduser-bap.html

    Although that's '97. I W00p.. first post!


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    1. Re:Through the normal channels... by smart2000 · · Score: 2
      Registrations in the .EDU domain are reserved for colleges and universities that grant degrees at the bachelor, master and doctoral level, or its foreign equivalent.......Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc., cannot obtain a .EDU Web Address of their own.

      Yet the biosphere project, which doesn't grant any degrees has an edu (network solutions no less). www.bio2.edu

      More proof that the "rules" are a joke.

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    2. Re:Through the normal channels... by pnevares · · Score: 1

      As does Internet2 - http://www.internet2.edu/

      Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".

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    3. Re:Through the normal channels... by frankie · · Score: 2
      More proof that the "rules" are a joke.

      Bzzt. Just an example of the stupid shit that was going on before they made the rule. Lots and lots of folks got .edu addresses in the early 90's -- community colleges, K-12 schools, even some random pseudo-educational stuff like Biosphere. That's why they decided to crack down.

      Personally, I think the rule is too harsh. Any accredited general educational institution from elementary through grad school should be allowed to use .edu, perhaps with a warning that higher universities have first dibs (to prevent, say, Columbia Junior High from cybersquatting).

  2. Re:you kiddin' me?! by King+of+the+World · · Score: 1
    That's a troll?

    Um, the parent asked what possible misuses of the .edu TLD could happen and the lad gave one, a good one, pr0n.

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  3. Despite what one might think... by bconway · · Score: 3

    Anyone can register a .EDU domain on NETSOL's page. If registering a .EDU domain, there is a box to fill in one's reason for doing so, but there's no means to check whether this is a valid education system, and as long as you're a paying customer, no one seems to mind. I know this might sound a little off the wall, but I really can't imagine that using a .EDU domain for another purpose is something many people are interested in doing, nor would anyone else really care.

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    1. Re:Despite what one might think... by jea6 · · Score: 3

      actually, the reason for the box is for netsol to check out your story, the reason you haven't seen sexacademy.edu is because Sex Academy is not a degree-granting, 4yr, accredited (3 criteria, people) institution. Ultimately, its up to the lowly csr to deny your application. in any case, it's netsol and they'll revoke the domain if they feel slighted or cheated. i tried to register a .edu for my daughter's day care: application, denied.

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  4. Re:Not just universities... by schnurble · · Score: 2
    Nope. www.portergaud.edu.

    My high school.

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  5. hmm by plool · · Score: 1

    Your selection is available for registration

    If you would like to register this Web Address(domain name), click Register Now below.

    slashdot.edu

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  6. http://www.stuy.edu by tugrul · · Score: 2

    Stuyvesant, the greatest educational institution I've attended :) (Class '99)

    Tugrul Galatali

  7. It wasn't always the rule... by weave · · Score: 2
    For those pointing out exceptions, the 4-year rule hasn't always been the case. Example, the 2-year college where I work at has dtcc.edu -- it's a community college.

    The rules were changed after we got our domain (1993). If we tried to register now, it'd be dtcc.co.de.us

    It's actually a good thing. It's the one non-polluted domain left. Every two-bit fly-by-night "earn your MCSC cert in two days" school would be wanting a .edu. It also prevents a company like ucsc.com suing ucsc.edu for trademark infringement! :)

  8. Re:Not just universities... by achurch · · Score: 1

    I suppose we've already established this, but I have to put in my plug for the greatest educational institution I've ever attended: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (www.tjhsst.edu). I graduated in '96, but they've owned tjhsst.edu since before I started (and before the Web, too). As far as I know, though, this is the only high school with a .edu domain.

    Not the only one; my alma mater, Montgomery Blair High School (mbhs.edu) (ah, old rivalries...) has one as well, and has had it since before I started there in fall 1991. Maybe InterNIC was more lax in the olden days?

  9. network neglect by William+Aoki · · Score: 1

    My old high school has east-slc.edu, from back when .edu domains were (officially) availible to non-four-year institutions.

    They don't use it, though. I doubt that that anyone there even knows that it exists. Its record at NSI hasn't been updated since it was created on Sept 18 1992, the administrative contact left about six years ago, and the DNS zone seems to have gone missing recently.

  10. what about... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Graduate programs, remote campuses, etc., cannot obtain a .EDU Web Address of their own

    What about this

  11. Universities should be the only ones that get .edu by p0d · · Score: 1

    High schools shouldn't get .edu...again, really just to prevent conflicts. My POS school system had gfsd.org (not going to gratify them with a link) and others have .us...it's fine that way. Leave the .edus for the universities as they were intended to be.

    Also, a school can register multiple variations of it's name. My university has miami.edu, and umiami.edu.

  12. Re:I like this image by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1

    Boy, that picture is so fucking sexist and racist.

    I can't believe the white-power mentality that created that picture.

    I'm absolutely appalled that people think that only men can be black, only women can be Asian, and only the white man can have the snazzy outfit.

    Besides, you'll notice the white man is standing a little above everybody else.

    And the white woman looks afraid, like she has to sleep with the white man after the photo shoot, or else she'll be demoted to secretary.

    And do you see how the black man knows he'll be returned to a lowly position serving "the man"? You can see it in his face.

    As for the Asian woman... See how her eyes are a bit puffy? She has just been crying, because the other three just got through making fun of her, probably by laughing at the way she says fried rice. They've probably also tossed some derogatory names at her, like coolie: "Nothing like some good old coolie labor to make some pictures!"

    So you see, everything is not all great. Either you have been so bombarded with the disgusting male-pig-white-supremacy bullshit that you can no longer see a phony, or you are a male-pig-white-supremacist and want to have things this way.

    I'm disgusted.

    I'm just kidding.

  13. Re:Not just universities... by darkonc · · Score: 1
    From what I can tell, all of the counter-examples are prior to the 1997 document sited at the top. They are also all prior to the explosion of the 'net, when everybody and their dog wanted to get their own domain.

    Honest, Billy: There really was a time when people would say "So why should I want an e-mail address? I've got FAX!"

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