CCSO Nameserver
Resurrecting the Qi/Ph nameserver from '93.
Preface
The CCSO nameserver was an early form of database search on the Internet. In its most common form, it was used as an electronic "Phone Book" to lookup information such as telephone numbers and email addresses. Today, this service has largely been replaced by LDAP. It was used mainly in the early-to-middle 1990s.
CCSO is a database search protocol which is still useful, even today.
About
Mr. Michael Lazar from Grand Rapids of Michigan has published a CCSO Nameserver software, which is called CCSO Nameserver.
This repository contains a working version of the original CCSO nameserver (aka "Qi") developed by Mr. Steven Domer at University of Illinois in '93.
The fruits of this labor can be seen here:
There are less than a handful of CCSO servers still running on the open web. This is probably the first new nameserver to go live in over a decade! More information about CCSO, including a list of active domains, can be found at:
Technicalities
According to Mr. Lazar, in order to build this project he had to salvage the source code off a long forgotten FTP server, stick it into a CentOS Docker Container, and smash it with a hammer until gcc cried uncle and compiled without errors.
Of course, that is, in part, a facetious joke, which is funny, nevertheless.