Thursday, January 27, 2011

BB Online Domain Information Update ".hm" domains.

You can now register a Heard Island and McDonald Islands domain today.

Registration:

To register your Heard Island and McDonald Islands domain, click here!

Once the domain is registered

All Heard Island and McDonald Islands domain names registered with us are stored on our international server. Domains registered with us are automatically provided with their own under-construction page - this notifies potential registrants that the name has been acquired and is now registered. The under-construction page is offered free of charge and may be used indefinitely.

It is possible for Web and/or Mail forwarding to be provided for Heard Island and McDonald Islands domains.

Domain transfer/release fees are charged are by a majority of registrars, but BB Online make no charge to transfer a domain to another Heard Island and McDonald Islands domain name registrar.

Background

.hm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the Heard and McDonald Islands.

There has been limited use of this top-level domain, most of it unrelated in any way to the Heard and McDonald Islands. For instance, my.hm issues firstname.lastname.hm in a manner similar to the .name registry. Orz.hm is a dynamic DNS server while gbr.hm sells subdomains within its .hm domains to sites within Great Britain.

Often, these sites are presented in such a way as to re-purpose .hm to mean "home".

Oddly, the Australian government's official website for Heard Island conservation efforts is heardisland.aq, an Antarctic domain and not part of .hm.


International domain names from BB Online since 1997

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