Digitally Imported and the Federated States of Micronesia
by matt @ 3:31 pm. Blogged under Music, Domain Registration
This week I discovered the fantastic Drum ‘n’ Bass channel on Digitally Imported - yet another fantastic Internet radio stream from these guys. It might have been available a while; perhaps it’s only my recent ‘Global Gathering‘ trip down memory lane that’s prompted me to go ‘old skool’ and pay attention to it. I was wondering where the domain ending ‘.FM’ came from, since .TV is managed on behalf of the islands of Tuvalu (which incidentally are sinking due to global warming).
It seems the .FM domain is designated to the Federated States of Micronesia - somewhere north of Papua New Guinea in the Pacific. Ironically both sets of islands are relatively close, quite bizarre when you consider that when these groups of islands were named neither the Internet, Radio or Television existed.
I’ve been listening to the House and Trance channels on DI for a good few years, this website has gone from strength to strength with popular DJs doing guest sessions with increasing frequency. Digitally Imported started around the turn of the millennium with a focus on Trance music, since then it has expanded to cover electronic dance music in general with channels from ‘Ambient’ to ‘Country’, ‘the 80s’ to ‘New Age’.
You can listen online in various streaming formats: Windows Media, Mp3, or aacPlus. It’s free to listen for the basic streaming service - just the odd American commercial announcement once in a while. Otherwise there’s the premium service available, but so far I’ve not found the need to go that far.
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