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Date: Mon, 14 Feb 2000 16:04:19 -0500 (EST) From: Bob Broedel <broedel@ray.met.fsu.edu> To: Info-Nets@rg.net Subject: FC: Pitcairn Island gets its .pn domain back ===================================================================== Date : Mon, 14 Feb 2000 11:06:14 -0500 >From : Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com> Subject: FC: Pitcairn Island gets its .pn domain back http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,34321,00.html Domain Dispute Hits a Dot by Declan McCullagh (declan@wired.com) 8:00 a.m. 14.Feb.2000 PST It's one of the most remote places on earth, a flyspeck in a far corner of the Pacific Ocean with no hotels, doctors, or airports. Founded in 1790 by the mutineers of the HMS Bounty, the island is so inaccessible that the local government warns potential visitors they could be stranded for weeks until the next ship passes by. Yet the natives of Pitcairn Island are determined to wire themselves to the Internet. Some 48 of them last year signed a petition to revoke ".pn" from a fellow islander who in 1997 somehow managed to acquire rights to register Web sites under that top-level domain. The letter demanded the "management" of .pn be yanked from the hands of Tom Christian, the great-great-great grandson of 18th century buccaneer and island founder Fletcher Christian. The only two Pitcairn Islanders who did not join the protest reportedly were Christian and his wife. On Friday, the Internet governing body that assigns top-level domains finally gave Christian's neighbors -- everyone in this UK protectorate lives in the village of Adamstown -- what they wanted. The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ruled that "the .pn top-level domain should be re-delegated as requested by the Pitcairn Island Council and the petition of Pitcairn residents." [...]