How Do You Register A .EDU Domain? 17
toolz asks: "Can anyone here tell me how one can register a .EDU domain for a legitimate school? I have searched Network Solution's site, and came up with zero refs. Ditto for all of the other registrars. Has .EDU gone underground or what? Would be grateful for a heads-up on this."
Through the normal channels... (Score:5)
Re:you kiddin' me?! (Score:1)
Um, the parent asked what possible misuses of the .edu TLD could happen and the lad gave one, a good one, pr0n.
Despite what one might think... (Score:3)
Re:Not just universities... (Score:2)
My high school.
hmm (Score:1)
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slashdot.edu
Re:Despite what one might think... (Score:3)
Re:Through the normal channels... (Score:2)
Yet the biosphere project, which doesn't grant any degrees has an edu (network solutions no less). www.bio2.edu
More proof that the "rules" are a joke.
Re:Through the normal channels... (Score:1)
Pablo Nevares, "the freshmaker".
http://www.stuy.edu (Score:2)
Tugrul Galatali
It wasn't always the rule... (Score:2)
The rules were changed after we got our domain (1993). If we tried to register now, it'd be dtcc.co.de.us
It's actually a good thing. It's the one non-polluted domain left. Every two-bit fly-by-night "earn your MCSC cert in two days" school would be wanting a .edu. It also prevents a company like ucsc.com suing ucsc.edu for trademark infringement! :)
Re:Not just universities... (Score:1)
I suppose we've already established this, but I have to put in my plug for the greatest educational institution I've ever attended: Thomas Jefferson High School for Science & Technology (www.tjhsst.edu) [tjhsst.edu]. I graduated in '96, but they've owned tjhsst.edu since before I started (and before the Web, too). As far as I know, though, this is the only high school with a .edu domain.
Not the only one; my alma mater, Montgomery Blair High School (mbhs.edu) [mbhs.edu] (ah, old rivalries...) has one as well, and has had it since before I started there in fall 1991. Maybe InterNIC was more lax in the olden days?
Re:Through the normal channels... (Score:2)
Bzzt. Just an example of the stupid shit that was going on before they made the rule. Lots and lots of folks got .edu addresses in the early 90's -- community colleges, K-12 schools, even some random pseudo-educational stuff like Biosphere. That's why they decided to crack down.
Personally, I think the rule is too harsh. Any accredited general educational institution from elementary through grad school should be allowed to use .edu, perhaps with a warning that higher universities have first dibs (to prevent, say, Columbia Junior High from cybersquatting).
network neglect (Score:1)
They don't use it, though. I doubt that that anyone there even knows that it exists. Its record at NSI hasn't been updated since it was created on Sept 18 1992, the administrative contact left about six years ago, and the DNS zone seems to have gone missing recently.
what about... (Score:1)
What about this [lij.edu]
Universities should be the only ones that get .edu (Score:1)
Also, a school can register multiple variations of it's name. My university has miami.edu, and umiami.edu.
Re:I like this image (Score:1)
Boy, that picture is so fucking sexist and racist.
I can't believe the white-power mentality that created that picture.
I'm absolutely appalled that people think that only men can be black, only women can be Asian, and only the white man can have the snazzy outfit.
Besides, you'll notice the white man is standing a little above everybody else.
And the white woman looks afraid, like she has to sleep with the white man after the photo shoot, or else she'll be demoted to secretary.
And do you see how the black man knows he'll be returned to a lowly position serving "the man"? You can see it in his face.
As for the Asian woman... See how her eyes are a bit puffy? She has just been crying, because the other three just got through making fun of her, probably by laughing at the way she says fried rice. They've probably also tossed some derogatory names at her, like coolie: "Nothing like some good old coolie labor to make some pictures!"
So you see, everything is not all great. Either you have been so bombarded with the disgusting male-pig-white-supremacy bullshit that you can no longer see a phony, or you are a male-pig-white-supremacist and want to have things this way.
I'm disgusted.
I'm just kidding.
Re:Not just universities... (Score:1)
Honest, Billy: There really was a time when people would say "So why should I want an e-mail address? I've got FAX!"