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Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the denuded dept.

gxc writes "The world's first free national wireless grid is no longer with us, after waves from Cyclone Heta swept over Niue's thirty metre cliffs, destroying everything. Although only one person died, the damage is so bad that there is talk of winding up the country , meaning their fortuitous ccTLD could go the way of .su. Perhaps the easiest way for Slashdotters to help Niue would be to choose a .nu domain over the dull alternatives."

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  1. Quick, grab by AEton · · Score: 5, Funny

    www.slashdot.nu is still available! Only 60euro/2 years! Think of the fun we could have. Uh, we could make, um. hm. A fresh nu slashdot. That'd be fun.

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    We recently had heard in the office over one of the Yellow Machine that's made by Anthology Solutions.
  2. Will the last to leave please turn off the lights? by Sabu+mark · · Score: 4, Funny

    Isn't that something? The country can just close up shop. They just give two weeks' notice to the UN and start planning the retirement party. Will attending nations please contribute five dollars for drinks and a small gift.

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    What Would Jesus Do
    (for a Klondike bar)?
  3. Not nu by hashinclude · · Score: 4, Funny

    King Arthur: .. Ni!

    Aide: Nu!

    Arthur: Nono -- you're doing it wrong! n_I_

    Aide: Ni!

    Both together: Ni! Ni! Ni!

    </sorry>

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    US is now divided as the "Red" and "blue" states. Red States = communist countries. Coincidence? I think not
  4. Please update your apt.sources files by Debian+Troll's+Best · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just a reminder to those Debian users in Niue, the mirror.debian.nu apt-get server will be down until further notice. It seems we were prepare for the Slashdot effect, but not a big fucking cyclone effect. Thank you, Local Debian Mirror Administrator

  5. Umm.. by jamesjw · · Score: 4, Funny


    Who says theyre witout a wireless setup?

    What ive seen theyre wireless, roofless, treeless, homeless.. :(

    -- Jim.

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    -- If at first you don't succeed, lie!
  6. What else is .nu? by Doc+Ruby · · Score: 4, Funny

    Consider a comparable situation. Japanese insurance companies run their spreadsheets in the Earth Simulator supercomputer and preemptively wind up the USA, rather than go through all that tedious Greenhouse/cleanup business.

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    make install -not war

  7. Hmm... by Loki_1929 · · Score: 4, Funny

    G.nu is Not Usable

    ".NU Search Results for "g.nu"
    Your domain name, including ".nu", must contain between 6 and 65 characters. "

    :-/

    --
    -- "Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else."
  8. Best TLD for pr0n... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I couple of years ago I was hunting around for a cheap place to register my domain...I had a poke around the local area (I'm in Australia) and consider Christmas Island, Heard and McDonald Island, and then noticed the Cook Islands was _really_ cheap and thought hey that's neat...turns out the Cook Islands follow the same naming convention as New Zeland and the UK: .ac.ck for ACademic institutions .net.ck for NETwork types

    and then it hit me why they were so cheap... .co.ck for COmpanies

    I'm really surprised that no-one has registerd
    www.big.co.ck etc. :-)

  9. Re:Silly Question by dillon_rinker · · Score: 4, Funny

    Peter Jackson and the ONE RING.