.us domain request denied ????

[Kevin Darcy]

Kevin Darcy wrote:

> marc_rossi at my-deja.com wrote:
>
> > My request for a individual .us domain under naperville.il.us was denied
> > for the following reason:
> >
> >   As a matter of policy, the City of Naperville only allows other
> >   governmental, or quasi-governmental bodies associated with the City to
> >   use
> >   the naperville.il.us domain name.  The City does not allow any private
> >   person, or business to use the domain name.
> >
> > This seems to go against what is stated on the www.nic.us home page that
> > says individuals can register domain names.
> >
> > Can somebody comment on how this works?  Should the city of Naperville
> > be allowed to enforce different restrictions than those stated at
> > nic.us?
>
> As a purely practical matter, you can't directly *make* them register your
> domain. However, you always have the option of appealing to a higher level
> (the maintainers of il.us or .us itself). They can be threatened with loss
> of delegated authority.

In probing further, it appears that the .us domain has adopted a naming
convention whereby a "ci" fourth-level component denotes city governmental
entities. There are many of these already under il.us, e.g.
ci.east-peoria.il.us, ci.grayslake.il.us, ci.joliet.il.us, and so on. Looks
like Naperville screwed up. All of the stuff they've been putting directly
under naperville.il.us should probably be under ci.naperville.il.us instead.
That would leave the rest of naperville.il.us open for individuals,
businesses, etc.


- Kevin