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Kiwi Geeks Seek Domain

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the besides-the-mines-of-moria dept.

Codeine writes "A group of professional Internet engineers and technicians from New Zealand are following the published procedure to obtain the delegation of GEEK.NZ from the NZ Domain Name Commissioner (DNC). If successful, GEEK.NZ would be New Zealand's twelfth second-level domain."

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  1. The original definition of the word geek... by dagg · · Score: 5, Funny
    Originally, a `geek' was a carnival performer who bit the heads off chickens.

    Indeed. I did not know that. That's pretty sick. The stuff you learn by clicking on slashdot links. I thought people who bit heads off chickens were hobo's.

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  2. Re:Very cool. by eddeye · · Score: 5, Funny
    It would be cool to have an 'anything goes' kind of area on the net.

    You mean like international waters? Where cowboys wage shootouts and sea captains marry cows? Those poor saps back on land will never know the simple pleasures of a monkey knife fight. <sigh>

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  3. We need more top level domains. by thogard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just where is this New Zealand thats getting the geek domain? Is that up on the east cost with all thouse other New states? My geology wasn't very good in school.

  4. Rockets Fall on Rocket Falls by cioxx · · Score: 5, Funny

    Here are my thoughts on this SLD (Second Level Domain) proposal: It's unnecessary.

    Hear me out. New Zealand has 3,908,037 people, give or take a few. I seriously doubt there are even 5,000 geeks who would get those domains. No one would pass up an opportunity to aquire .com domain or any other TLD. This idea is very specialized, hence serves no purpose.

    Besides, all my friends from NZ have .com/.net/.org domains already.

    I do have a proposal on what type of domains New Zealand government should implement, since the topic came up.

    *.holycowmyinternetisslow.nz - for people who are still on 28.8k dialup modems inside of New Zealand
    *.udpmatch.nz - for packet kiddies who are looking for a mate
    *.neal.nz - will be reserved for Cowboy Neal in case he ever moves there
    *.sheep.nz - hot sheep erotic fanfiction
    *.cliche.nz - will serve as the domain for humor sites incorporating "beowulf cluster" and "In Soviet Russia" jokes all the time!
    *.rom.nz - domain for Romainians who are considering moving to New Zealand to trade ROMS and Emulators for Atari 9600

    I'm keeping my fingers crossed for some NZ official to see these suggestions and put them on a fasttrack.