dot US

[James D Almand]

Actual the .US domains are still being managed hierarchically
(to the best of my knowledge, RFC1480 has not been killed as yet.).
And all the currently held domains (pre US-DOC involvement spelled
"outsourcing") are suppose to be grandfathered.
Also, some of the .State.xx.US. are converting to xx.Gov. because
some people do not like to type on a key board. (must not know about
bookmarking or saving addresses in a folder) ;=)
(Kevin, if you ever though there were battles here, you should have
seen the s___ flying over those changes)...



Kevin Darcy wrote:

> .us was managed hierarchically for a long time, i.e. someone was in
> charge of mi.us, someone else was in charge of warren.mi.us or
> sterling-heights.mi.us or whatever (with the permission of the parent
> domain's owner of course). What has changed recently is that a single
> organization is in charge of the whole domain and they've abolished the
> ridiculous {name}.{city}.{state}.mi.us naming rules. These changes make
> it possible for regular registrars like godaddy.com, register.com etc.
> to start selling domains under the .us TLD.
> 
> Clear now?
> 
> Why so much confusion? Your original question "So '.us' is available
> now?" was way too vague, and Bill Manning was being his usual
> curmudgeonly self...
> 
> 
> - Kevin
> 
> William Stacey wrote:
> 
> 
>>How come godaddy has it as new gtld that you need to preregister for?
>>Register.com also says its new...
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: "Bill Manning" <bmanning at ISI.EDU>
>>To: "William Stacey" <staceyw at mvps.org>
>>Cc: <comp-protocols-dns-bind at isc.org>
>>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 4:00 AM
>>Subject: Re: dot US
>>
>>>% So ".us" is available now?
>>>%
>>>% -- wjs
>>>%
>>>
>>>its been available for a -long- time
>>>
>>>--bill 
> 

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