.hm
Encyclopedia
.hm is the Internet
country code
top-level domain
(ccTLD) for the Heard and McDonald Islands
, an uninhabited territory of Australia
.
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
. In a similar example, praise.hm is a URL shortening service directed at Christians wishing to praise the name of Jesus Christ, when they post links within text messages and social networking sites.
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.
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
country code
Country code
Country codes are short alphabetic or numeric geographical codes developed to represent countries and dependent areas, for use in data processing and communications. Several different systems have been developed to do this. The best known of these is ISO 3166-1...
top-level domain
Top-level domain
A top-level domain is one of the domains at the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet. The top-level domain names are installed in the root zone of the name space. For all domains in lower levels, it is the last part of the domain name, that is, the last label of a...
(ccTLD) for the Heard and McDonald Islands
Heard Island and McDonald Islands
The Heard Island and McDonald Islands are an Australian external territory and volcanic group of barren Antarctic islands, about two-thirds of the way from Madagascar to Antarctica. The group's overall size is in area and it has of coastline...
, an uninhabited territory of Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...
.
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
.name
The domain name "name" is a generic top-level domain in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is intended for use by individuals for representation of their personal names, nicknames, screen names, pseudonyms, or other types of identification labels....
registry. Orz.hm is a dynamic DNS
Dynamic DNS
Dynamic DNS or DDNS is a term used for the updating in real time of Internet Domain Name System name servers to keep up to date the active DNS configuration of their configured hostnames, addresses and other information....
server while gbr.hm sells subdomains within its .hm domains to sites within Great Britain
Great Britain
Great Britain or Britain is an island situated to the northwest of Continental Europe. It is the ninth largest island in the world, and the largest European island, as well as the largest of the British Isles...
. In a similar example, praise.hm is a URL shortening service directed at Christians wishing to praise the name of Jesus Christ, when they post links within text messages and social networking sites.
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
.aq
.aq is the Internet country code top-level domain for Antarctica. It is reserved for organizations that conduct work in Antarctica or promote the Antarctic and Southern Ocean regions...
and not part of .hm.