.mh is the
Internet
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country code
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The term ''country code'' frequently re ...
top-level domain
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(
ccTLD
A country code top-level domain (ccTLD) is an Internet top-level domain generally used or reserved for a country, sovereign state, or dependent territory identified with a country code. All ASCII ccTLD identifiers are two letters long, and all tw ...
) for the
Marshall Islands
The Marshall Islands, officially the Republic of the Marshall Islands, is an island country west of the International Date Line and north of the equator in the Micronesia region of the Northwestern Pacific Ocean.
The territory consists of 29 c ...
.
Its registry website has been inactive since the end of 2021, and prior to that had not been updated since 1997. The mechanism of registering domains listed on that site involved downloading an
InterNIC
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template form that had been a
dead link
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for at least several years.
, a search showed three active websites using a .mh domain: one for the government's Natural Disaster Management Office, one for the school system, and one for a telecommunications company. The Natural Disaster Management Office website went offline a year later. In 2022, the Office of Commerce, Investment & Tourism created a site under the domain, but moved to
.org in late 2023. The same year, Wahoo, a store based in
Majuro
Majuro (; Marshallese language, Marshallese: ' ) is the Capital city, capital and largest city of the Marshall Islands. It is also a large coral atoll of 64 islands in the Pacific Ocean. It forms a legislative district of the Ratak Chain, Ratak ( ...
, opened a website under the domain.
Most of the people who govern a site from the Marshall Islands usually register it under
.com,
.net
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or .org. Almost all sites registered to entities in the Marshall Islands are hosted in other countries.
See also
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Communications in the Marshall Islands
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Internet in the Marshall Islands
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Internet in the United States
The Internet in the United States grew out of the ARPANET, a network sponsored by the Advanced Research Projects Agency of the U.S. Department of Defense during the 1960s. The Internet in the United States of America in turn provided the fou ...
*
.us
References
External links
IANA .mh whois information.mh domain registration website(currently inactive)
Country code top-level domains
Communications in the Marshall Islands
Internet properties established in 1996
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