At 02:36 AM 8/04/2000 , Patrick Corliss wrote:

 >> http://www.marketplace.mp/
 >>
 >> I suspect ICANN will stop this practice soon (ie private groups
 >> hijacking a country code) or at the very least ensuring the structure
 >> is .com.mp or similar and not mydomain.mp as is the case now.
 >
 >See also the little country of Niue on  http://www.nunames.nu/

There's also http://WorldSite.WS/wpn "WorldSite.WS is the Registry
center for the new ".WS" top level domain, and is the organization for
registering second level domains within the '.ws' domain"   Why not?

Cheers all ..
Stephen Loosley
www.stephen.hm  (Again, why not?)
(And just btw .hm = Heard & McDonald Islands which have just one
un-inhabited research-station ... and are an Australian Protectorate)