I attempted to get one. It was turned down by the NIC folks; they said that the basic group of COM MIL ORG EDU NET INT was sufficient for all time.
So I tried to get one in .INT - hamradio.int, I think it was. That was in progress for some time and then basically got shoved behind somebody's desk and I could never get any reply to inquiries about it, so we didn't get that one either. We finally went with AMPR.ORG as that was achievable.
You could probably get .HAM now. I believe now all it takes is money. - Brian
On Wed, Sep 06, 2017 at 12:14:54PM -0700, Cory (NQ1E) wrote:
Personally, I've always wondered how we missed the boat on getting a top-level domain name in the early days of DNS. Getting our own TLD makes a lot of sense since our call signs are already a globally unique namespace we could use with it. DNS is only meant to make addresses easier to remember, but by standardizing our namespace in a TLD, we would also have the advantage of a global directory that makes the services you want to make public easily discoverable. I can see such a thing becoming very valuable to our community in the future as amateur radio continues to merge with the digital world. If we had setup a registry to handle it, that technical advantage may have granted us a TLD in the early days. But now that they've changed the rules for TLDs, it would almost certainly require more resources than a group of hams could manage. However, if the concept is valuable enough to us, it may be worth taking advantage of an opportunity to trade a small part of our unused IPv4 space for it.
Cory Johnson, NQ1E HamWAN Puget Sound