.mu is the
Internet
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country code
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top-level domain
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(
ccTLD
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) for
Mauritius
Mauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, about off the southeastern coast of East Africa, east of Madagascar. It includes the main island (also called Mauritius), as well as Rodrigues, Ag ...
. It is administered by the
Mauritius Network Information Centre and registrations are processed via accredited registrars. Some registrars market it as the
.music and
.museum TLD
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.
Usage
A number of musical groups have started to use this domain, with .mu being used to indicate music. Some examples are the rock band
Athlete
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, the country band
Lonestar
Lonestar (formerly known as Texassee) is an American country music band from Nashville, Tennessee. The band consists of Drew Womack (lead vocals, acoustic guitar, electric guitar), Michael Britt (lead guitar, background vocals), Dean Sams (key ...
, the British progressive rock bands
Muse
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and
Pendragon, the New Age musical project
Amethystium and the 80s influenced hardcore metal band
Blessed By A Broken Heart
Blessed by a Broken Heart is a Canadian rock music, rock band from Montreal, Quebec. They released three albums, the last of which, ''Feel the Power'', was released by Tooth & Nail Records and made the ''Billboard'' Christian Albums and Top Hea ...
. In addition, the UK-based record label
Planet Mu
Planet Mu is an English electronic music record label created and run by Mike Paradinas. The label started out as a subsidiary of Virgin Records then Paradinas set up the label independent of Virgin. After releasing intelligent dance music, the ...
also uses the .mu domain, with the .mu forming the second half of the label's name. The world's largest direct seller of musical instruments, (
Musician's Friend), also uses a .mu URL (frnd.mu) as a
link shortener for several of their social media channels, including Twitter. The French webpage for the
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
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(
Radio-Canada Radio-Canada may refer to:
* CBC/Radio-Canada, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
*Ici Radio-Canada Télé, the CBC's main French-language television network
*Ici Radio-Canada Première
Ici Radio-Canada Première (formerly Première Chaîne) i ...
) uses the .mu domain for its Music network's web-only personalised music streams.
Recent events
In 2009, a Memorandum of Understanding was signed between Internet Direct and the Government of Mauritius. In 2012, the agreement was not renewed by the Ministry of IT. In July 2013, Internet Direct Limited stated that they would no longer provide services to the Government of Mauritius unless the arrears for domain name registrations and renewals are settled. The National Computer Board of Mauritius refused to pay, claiming that it should be free because they are the Government.
The Information and Communication Technologies Authority (ICTA Mauritius) published a consultation paper in September 2011 and April 2012, with a view to forcing a re-delegation. At the public consultation meeting held on 12 April 2012, the international consultant informed ICTA that their proposal was clumsy and the Government does not have a case for re-delegation, because their proposed model is inappropriate and no proposal will be possible without working together with the current sponsoring organization "Internet Direct Ltd".
In October 2014, the portal of the government of Mauritius was no longer accessible outside the Orange network. Orange is a subsidiary of
Mauritius Telecom
Mauritius Telecom (MT) is a telecommunications company in Mauritius, a small republic in the Indian Ocean. The company had about 392,000 fixed line customers, 969,000 mobile customers, 404,000 fibre-ready homes, 178,000 IPTV customers, and 255,000 ...
, the state-owned telecom operator. Various IT experts including staff of AfriNIC, Google and the local Linux Group found that the DNS servers set up by Orange contained incorrect entries, thereby hiding from the Mauritius public the true situation when in fact the services were already disconnected. The Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Mauritius was not aware of the issue.
All the websites hosted on the gov.mu domain name were no longer accessible. It turned out that the Government, despite numerous extensions given to settle the renewal fees, still did not pay for the services and requested the Supreme Court to order Internet Direct Ltd to provide the service for free in perpetuity. Both the Ministry of IT and Internet Direct Ltd have declined to provide any comments about the matter, since the case was still being disputed in court.
In January 2015, the Government formally withdrew their case against Internet Direct Ltd and are in discussion for an amicable settlement for the amount owed by the Government. There has been several meetings since between the various advisers.
Second-level domains
* .com.mu: Commercial entities
* .net.mu: Network entities
* .org.mu: Non-profit organisations
* .biz.mu: Commercial entities
* .edu.mu: Educational institutions
* .gov.mu: Government organisations
* .ac.mu: Academic institutions
* .co.mu: Commercial entities (no longer available for new registration by most registrars)
* .or.mu: Non-profit organisations (no longer available for new registration by most registrars)
See also
*
.io - of the
Chagos Archipelago
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a/k/a British Indian Ocean Territory (BIOT)
References
External links
Mauritius Network Information Centre
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Communications in Mauritius
Country code top-level domains
Internet in Mauritius
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