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.hm

Introduced	24 July 1997
TLD type	Country code top-level domain
Status	Active*
Registry
Sponsor
Intended use	Entities associated with Heard Island and McDonald Islands
Actual use	Gets some use, none of it related to Heard and McDonald Islands
Registry website	HM Domain Registry

.hm is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of the Heard and McDonald Islands, uninhabited islands in the southern Indian Ocean under the sovereign control of Australia. Although .hm gets a small amount of use, Australia uses the .aq domain (for Antarctica) for its sites related to the islands themselves. As a result, no .hm website is related to the location.

History[]

The .hm registry was added in July 1997 by Edward Sweeney, who made its registration system accessible on registry.hm.^[1] By 2019, the .hm TLD had stopped working, and .hm websites started to go dark. Journalists looking into the matter said acquaintances in the industry had not seen Edward Sweeney, who was still in charge of the .hm registry, since 2000. He later resurfaced, claiming he was still managing the registry, and had run into technical issues.^[1]

Domain registration is directly at the second level, and is managed by the HM Domain Registry. Any entity can register an .hm domain.

References[]

External links[]

• IANA .hm whois information
• .hm domain registration website
• Official Australia government site about Heard & Mcdonald Islands, heardisland.aq

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