dot US

[Nick Simicich]

At 09:23 AM 2002-04-19 -0700, Bill Manning wrote:

>  I can only guess that its new to them.  The .us domain predates
>  either of those companies.

I used to be simicich.boca-raton.fl.us.  The rules were that the first in a 
city had to provide delegations - it was free for people in the US, but you 
were always at least 4 levels down.  I see that they screwed all the people 
who were in under the old rules, with zero notice.  I looked when I saw 
this posting and there is no longer a chain from the root to my DNS.  No 
notice, it just went away, went from free to for profit.  Of course, you 
knew that was going to happen after John passed away.

It is irritating - I'm sure they posted this somewhere and asked for 
comments but the reality is that they could have and should have run the 
SOA chains and provided notification that people's DNS was about to go - I 
believe, for example, that boca-raton.fl.us was transferrable, and they 
could have run it to simicich.boca-raton.fl.us and sent notice about the 
proposed change and asked for comments (or they could have notified us that 
our linkages were going away).

I see someone claimed that it was regulated by the US Government - wrong 
answer.  The old rules were that the first person who asked for the ISO 
country code and who gave an address in the country got it delegated to 
them, more or less personally.  John Postel used to have this domain 
delegated to him personally.  I believe that he, as an individual, mandated 
the old rules - that it was all strictly geographic, and that the first 
entity in a city got the DNS for the city and that they had to register 
others in the city.  This goes a long ways back, folks.

I'm glad I had an alternative when the .us linkage disappeared.

>% 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
>% >
>%
>%
>
>
>--
>--bill

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