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'.um' is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States Minor Outlying Islands. It is administered by the United States Minor Outlying Islands Registry. Until late 2006 it was administered by the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute, which was the original administer of .us, prior to NeuStar absorbing that role. Originally, registrants could only register third-level domains or higher, but in April 2002 second-level domains became available.
The .um registry site is active as of late April 2007; however, a Google search of ''.um'' found only one result—the registry site itself. However accessing the same address without the WWW subdomain reveals it is a mirror for ep.net^[1]
There is an email address through which information can be requested on the homepage of the registry site, but apparently the registry is only accepting submissions of "interest" at this time, so no registrations in this domain are possible at the present time.
In January 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers reportedly dropped the .um domain from the master list of domain names in response to the domain's being unused and the desire of the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute to divest itself of responsibility for the domain.^[2]. However, .um still exists in the global DNS as of 25 May 2007.
Since the University of Southern California Information Sciences Institute divested itself of this registry, in late 2006, Bill Manning has been administering it.

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References

1. http://nic.um
2. Unused Domain Name for U.S. Isles Gone Anick Jesdanun

External links

★ IANA .um whois information

★ United States Minor Outlying Islands NIC

★ DNS Report on the .um domain