{"id":1621,"date":"2013-02-16T21:29:52","date_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/?p=1621"},"modified":"2013-02-16T21:36:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-16T17:36:02","slug":"what-the-hell-is-ac-mu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/2013\/what-the-hell-is-ac-mu\/","title":{"rendered":"WTH is ac.mu?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered why UoM (University of Mauritius) doesn’t use a Top Level Domain as uom.mu? We wouldn’t have to use the long crappy email fname.lname@umail.uom.ac.mu. It would have been less scary for first timers.<\/p>\n

Some googling showed that almost all Mauritian institutions\/universities have .ac.mu such as University of Technology (UTM). The Charles Telfair\u00a0Institute, etc.<\/p>\n

\"ac_mu\"<\/a><\/p>\n

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What does .ac stands for?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“.ac<\/b>\u00a0(short for\u00a0ac<\/b>ademia<\/i>) is a second level domain for academic establishments, such as\u00a0universities, colleges and research institutes.[1]<\/sup>\u00a0Many countries use\u00a0.edu\u00a0for the same purpose, for example .edu.au\u00a0in\u00a0Australia\u00a0and .edu.my\u00a0in\u00a0Malaysia.” – Wikipedia<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I’d still prefer if UoM had a TLD. Neways, it won’t be weird when referring to ac.mu now \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Ever wondered why UoM (University of Mauritius) doesn’t use a Top Level Domain as uom.mu? We wouldn’t have to use the long crappy email fname.lname@umail.uom.ac.mu. It would have been less scary for first timers. Some googling showed that almost all Mauritian institutions\/universities have .ac.mu such as University of Technology (UTM). The Charles Telfair\u00a0Institute, etc.   … Continue reading WTH is ac.mu?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[156,155,110,154],"class_list":["post-1621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-domain","tag-the-charles-telfair-institute","tag-uom","tag-utm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1621"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1625,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1621\/revisions\/1625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nayarweb.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}