Niue WiFi Network Gone, .nu TLD May Follow

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."

Comments

Stop it

[mcbridematt]

What are you guys thinking?

Your taking domains for your own purposes, instead of letting the rightful users of the domain (the people that live on the island) have full rights to it. Thats just utter DNS misusage and disgraceful.

Some applies for *cough*goatse.cx*cough* .cx belonds to Christmas Island, which you would all know is an Australian. Time they put auDA in charge of .cx and not let the shock sites back in without an Australian Tax File number (AFAIK an Australian Taxation number is a requirement for using anything under .au)

Re:and the point of that would be?

[Anonymous Coward]

(I'm assuming you're American, forgive me if that isn't the case) I find it amusing that you're saying New Zeland shouldn't send an independent country, Niue, about $8M a year, while at the same time the US is sending in the order of $3B to Israel. With that much money, you'd think the US would get to control the country and not the opposite...

Re:and the point of that would be?

[frovingslosh]

I am an American, and unlike the Anonymous Cowards I'll post under my own account that I don't for one instant think that the U.S. should be giving any money to the terrorist stare of Israel.