CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3

Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by usernamed7 on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:03PM (#48740376)

I was surprised to see .cern as a TLD - i would not expect it to need a family of websites in the way .gov or .mil do.

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by oliyoung on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:35PM (#48740639)

To be fair, if any org deserves a vanity TLD it's CERN

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by saghm on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @01:45AM (#48742725)

Yeah, given that the web was basically invented there, it seems pretty reasonable

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by andrewf on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @07:12PM (#48740446)

It's a brand gTLD, like .microsoft and .google. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Brand...

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by pezezin on Tuesday June 30, 2026 @09:08PM (#48741280)

CERN is so big that they have their own IXP: https://cixp.net/

Also, the web was invented at CERN, so like the other comment said, if someone deserves at gTLD is them.

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by gojak on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @03:09AM (#48743236)

Actually, in the 2000's CERN was the biggest internet exchange point in Switzerland, while the physical datacenter was not in Switzerland but in France xD

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Re:CERN bids farewell to the LHC and enters Long Shutdown 3 by Cockbrand on Wednesday July 01, 2026 @04:26AM (#48743761)

I was too, and I was going to ask whether this is a good use of taxpayer money, as the ICANN fee for registering a TLD is $227,000. But given the fact that the Web was invented at CERN, I could imagine that they got a special deal.

Happy to learn about details if someone knows more!

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