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Another one is the Heard Island and McDonald Islands, which have the .hm ccTLD [1] despite having no human inhabitants. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heard_

• jonemo 14y ago
  .hn is Honduras, I think you meant to type .hm If you are wondering if show.hn and ask.hn are valid: No, Hondorus uses the *.[com|net|org|edu|...].hn format [1] Edit: Ignore that second part. It's wrong. You can register .hn and someone did that for show.hn and ask.hn. You can have ask.hn for $10k [2]. Didn't do thorough enough research earlier because I was on my phone and my fingers are fat and the touchscreen buttons small. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.hn [2] http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&domain=ask.hn&partnerid=55490&origin=partner http://www.sedo.com/search/details.php4?language=us&doma...
  • nwh 14y ago
    Some registries seem to be fairly lenient though, formally domains can't be registered at the second level of .au (must be .com.au or .org.au), yet somehow http://csiro.au/ http://csiro.au/ exists.
    • andyjohnson0 14y ago
      Its often the case that these domains were registered by organisations (like, I assume, CSIRO) that had an early internet presence which pre-dates the formal procedures that were later adopted by registrars.
      • nwh 14y ago
        They predate even whois apparently. The web based auDA whois returns absolutely no data too. $ whois csiro.au No Data Found
      • justincormack 14y ago
        Also strange things like .britishlibrary.uk in the early days no one quite knew how naming was going to pan out.