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| earth.li started because JonathanMcDowell and others(?), who were then at Keble College, Oxford, thought it would be cool to have a domain to do things with. earth.ie was considered but seemed impractical to obtain so earth.li was chosen. The original EarthlingsCouncilOfThirteen each contributed £5 and in return had domain names under earth.li pointed at their machines. They also got @earth.li email addresses. earth.li DNS was handled by some (one?) machines within the Oxford domain (orange?). | earth.li started because JonathanMcDowell and others(?), most of whom were then at Keble College, Oxford, thought it would be cool to have a domain to do things with. We needed a domain that would allow all of us to have cool hostnames for our machines. Eventually we came up with "earth", however all the gTLD earth domains were gone. I can't remember why we didn't go for earth.org.uk, which appears to have been free at the time. Perhaps length. |
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| Unfortunately this soon aroused the ire of the [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford University Computing Service], who claimed that this was against the rules despite the relevant rules making no mention of anything of the kind. Nonetheless orange (and other machines?)'s network access was blocked until it stopped running earth.li DNS and pointing earth.li names at other Oxford machines. | It ended up with me (Jonathan) working my way through the RIPE list of registries trying to think about what would be cool. We attempted to register earth.ie (several of us are from Northern Ireland), but this was rejected by the .ie registry for reasons unknown (probably due to the fact they don't count NI as part of Ireland, despite the fact their constitution does, and that names have to have a resemblence to the organization registereing them). We also looked at earth.aq (f.aq would really rock), but again the residency requirement bites us. There are plans to get Kami to go some time though. And so we ended up with earth.li, which seemed cool enough and we could meet the requirements for. The original EarthlingsCouncilOfThirteen each contributed £5 and in return had domain names under earth.li pointed at their machines. They also got @earth.li email addresses. earth.li DNS was handled by some machines within the Oxford domain: orange ran the primary DNS, and feeble was the secondary. [http://www.earth.li www.earth.li ] originally pointed at kami.keble, with a web page asking people to look at the real webserver which was hosted on heaven.on.earth.li. Unfortunately this soon aroused the ire of [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford University Computing Services], who claimed that this was against the rules despite the relevant rules making no mention of anything of the kind. Nonetheless the network access of orange and feeble was blocked until they stopped running earth.li DNS and pointing earth.li names at other Oxford machines. The rules were subsequently altered to explicitly ban people from pointing external domain names at .ox.ac.uk machines without permission. The hosting of earth.li was moved to [http://www.pair.com/ Pair Networks] and the email addresses and web space continued there for some months, until the opportunity arose for AdrianChadd to colocate a machine for us in Amsterdam for free. Thus was born the.earth.li, which was built out of various parts found lying around or bought by contributions from EarthlingsEarthBuilders. the was duly taken to Amsterdam and entered service hosting earth.li, but its connection proved unreliable (read: management didn't like this ugly desktop box in the corner and pulled the plug) and hosting of earth.li was quickly moved back to Pair. Thus things remained until the Summer of 2000, when JonathanMcDowell had left university and was able to build a new the.earth.li and host it with (who?), where it remained until it was moved to a rack belonging to [http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk Black Cat Networks], which is run by SimonHuggins and JonathanMcDowell (who are both earthlings). |
earth.li started because JonathanMcDowell and others(?), most of whom were then at Keble College, Oxford, thought it would be cool to have a domain to do things with. We needed a domain that would allow all of us to have cool hostnames for our machines. Eventually we came up with "earth", however all the gTLD earth domains were gone. I can't remember why we didn't go for earth.org.uk, which appears to have been free at the time. Perhaps length.
It ended up with me (Jonathan) working my way through the RIPE list of registries trying to think about what would be cool. We attempted to register earth.ie (several of us are from Northern Ireland), but this was rejected by the .ie registry for reasons unknown (probably due to the fact they don't count NI as part of Ireland, despite the fact their constitution does, and that names have to have a resemblence to the organization registereing them). We also looked at earth.aq (f.aq would really rock), but again the residency requirement bites us. There are plans to get Kami to go some time though. And so we ended up with earth.li, which seemed cool enough and we could meet the requirements for. The original EarthlingsCouncilOfThirteen each contributed £5 and in return had domain names under earth.li pointed at their machines. They also got @earth.li email addresses.
earth.li DNS was handled by some machines within the Oxford domain: orange ran the primary DNS, and feeble was the secondary. [http://www.earth.li www.earth.li ] originally pointed at kami.keble, with a web page asking people to look at the real webserver which was hosted on heaven.on.earth.li.
Unfortunately this soon aroused the ire of [http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ Oxford University Computing Services], who claimed that this was against the rules despite the relevant rules making no mention of anything of the kind. Nonetheless the network access of orange and feeble was blocked until they stopped running earth.li DNS and pointing earth.li names at other Oxford machines. The rules were subsequently altered to explicitly ban people from pointing external domain names at .ox.ac.uk machines without permission.
The hosting of earth.li was moved to [http://www.pair.com/ Pair Networks] and the email addresses and web space continued there for some months, until the opportunity arose for AdrianChadd to colocate a machine for us in Amsterdam for free. Thus was born the.earth.li, which was built out of various parts found lying around or bought by contributions from EarthlingsEarthBuilders. the was duly taken to Amsterdam and entered service hosting earth.li, but its connection proved unreliable (read: management didn't like this ugly desktop box in the corner and pulled the plug) and hosting of earth.li was quickly moved back to Pair.
Thus things remained until the Summer of 2000, when JonathanMcDowell had left university and was able to build a new the.earth.li and host it with (who?), where it remained until it was moved to a rack belonging to [http://www.blackcatnetworks.co.uk Black Cat Networks], which is run by SimonHuggins and JonathanMcDowell (who are both earthlings).