[sllug-members]: domain question

[Mark K. Spute]

Corey, et. al.;

I'm sorry, but I don't follow.  See below . . .

Corey Edwards wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-11-13 at 16:07 -0700, Spute, Mark K @ CSW-SLC wrote:
> 
>>No, I was attempting to find out how many, if any, subdomains there
>>are for .um.  Since as far as I am aware, all of the U.S. Minor
>>Outlying Islands are uninhabited, there shouldn't be any.  But how do
>>I confirm this?
> 
> 
> Interesting. I hadn't realized nobody lived there. My suspicion is that
> because they have an ISO assigned country code, they automatically
> received a CC top level domain. That doesn't necessarily mean that
> anybody is using it. But look at Tuvalu and you'll see that just because
> someone doesn't live in the country, doesn't mean they can't register a
> domain there.
> 
> The SOA for um. is venera.isi.edu, which is the Information Sciences
> Institute at USC. The serial number is 2000120103. Based on that, I
> would guess that the domain is largely (if not completely) unused.

I know that USC/ISI is the stated registrar.  Why based on that, or on 
the serial number, would you guess that it is completely unused.  I 
don't follow.

> You could perhaps write to the hostmaster, us-domain at isi.edu, and see if
> they might answer your question.

I'll try that.  Thanks.

Mark