Third-level Naming Conventions
Many departments within the university share the Carnegie Mellon network. In general, third-level domain names, which appear immediately before .cmu.edu in a computer's full name, indicate the department owner or administrator of the machine.
The typical computer name at Carnegie Mellon follows this pattern: machine-name.org-name.cmu.edu. Machine-name is the name of the individual computer and org-name is the name of the department that owns the computer. For example, in the name synergy.as.cmu.edu, synergy is the machine name and as is the third-level domain abbreviation for Administrative Systems.
If there is no third-level domain name assigned to a computer, the university uses andrew as the default. For example, in the name hamlet.andrew.cmu.edu, hamlet is the machine name, and andrew is the third-level domain name. Student-owned computers in residence halls are given res as default.
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Requirements
A single third-level domain will be created for departments or administrative group if it meets the following criteria:
- Fifty (50) or more computers are:
- owned by a single administrative or academic department or other organizational group, and comprise the whole of the computers owned by that department or group
-AND- - are maintained by a designated system administrator or team of system administrators(s).
- owned by a single administrative or academic department or other organizational group, and comprise the whole of the computers owned by that department or group
- The group or department is one of the university's colleges (CIT, MCS, SCS, etc.) or any academic department that issues undergraduate, graduate or doctoral degrees.
- The group or department is headed by a Vice-President.
- The group or department reports directly to the Provost.
Note: The third-level domain name must identify the group, for example, cit.cmu.edu, cs.cmu.edu, english.cmu.edu. Only one third-level domain may be requested for each group.
The following naming conventions are not permitted:
- A name deemed by the university to be offensive or obscene.
- A name that misrepresents the machine by making it appear to be a "service" system (FTP-ANDREW, VICE4, etc.) or a system representing a CMU department or group (Housing, Registrar, Psychology, etc.) when it does not.
- A name that places the machine in an inaccurate domain. For example, the third-level domain name of a Psychology Department machine cannot be identified in the ece.cmu.edu domain.