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Kiwi Geeks Seek Domain
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."
Not sure why the "12th second level domain" phrase surprised you. The New Zealand Domain Name Structure describes the current structure and processes surrounding the creation of new second level .nz domains. It mentions that the general form of NZ domain names is name.domain.nz where name is the user chosen name, and domain is one of .ac, .co, .cri, .gen, .govt, .iwi, .mil, .net, .org and .school.
.geek.nz the 11th...
The fact that that document only lists 10 second level domains surprises me as this would make
The unique ones are school.nz (other educational), maori.nz (general maori tribe), iwi.nz (local maori tribe), cri.nz (gov research),
As well as geek.nz there's a proposal for bank.nz.
Certain domains are open for anyone to use (maori.nz) but others (bank.nz, iwi.nz) require procedures to register.
--Giving to trolls for the benefit of us all
Recently, the maori.nz domain was created. It was created on the grounds that it was of cultural value for a clearly defined subculture of NZ, AIR.
:-)
However, there was something of a geek feeling that this wasn't very fair - it was a domain created on the basis of race and race alone.
In protest, and in a "if they can get it, why can't we" various people attempted to create the geek.nz domain. There is something of a race issue that we have to work through around here - thoughout the greater culture, stretching as far back as The Treaty of Waitangi
(Yes, there is something of an opening-the-floodgates problem, but there is a moritorim on new applications at the moment.)
(BTW, this isn't exactly news, as the idea was mooted, AIR, many months ago.)
Oh, and New Zealand Herald / NZPA Coverage
It's a cool thing, let us have our fun!
Okay, I'm probably overplaying the race issue - it is something of a bugbear for me, however, that is the rationale behind.
I agree with your sentiment completely.
.GEEK.NZ domains to anyone) from the NZ Domain Name Commissioner (DNC). If successful, GEEK.NZ would be New Zealand's twelfth second-level domain.
However I think this particular submission was reasonably clear. A group of professional Internet engineers and technicians from New Zealand (ie. a private group) are following the published procedure to obtain the delegation of GEEK.NZ (ie. they'll be able to give out
It's significant because it allows a private group to define what a particular subdomain looks like by who they grant registrations to. It is leveraging the delegation model of DNS to give a particular social/professional group their own DNS namespace.
A more detailed explanation could be useful to people not familiar with DNS, though.