out-of-business registrar

[G. Roderick Singleton]

On Wed, 2005-09-28 at 14:04 -0500, /dev/rob0 wrote:
> On Wednesday 2005-September-28 13:47, G. Roderick Singleton wrote:
> > > > does my customer just find another registrar? The domain in
> > > > question is ci.woodinville.wa.us.
> > >
> > > That's a special use domain. Your customer (the city of
> > > Woodinville, Washington USA) always and exclusively owns that
> > > domain. Start poking around Neustar (the .US TLD registrar) and
> > > find out how to proceed. This is not a commercial/private domain so
> > > the advice in the other thread is not appropriate.
> >
> > That may be but I believe you are very wrong about .us being special
> > use. See http://www.neustar.com/addressing/usDom.cfm
> 
> I'm sorry, I was not referring to the .US TLD. I'm a .us registrant 
> myself; I am well aware of the existence of private .us subdomains. I 
> was referring to the ci.[locality-name].[2-letter-state-code].us 
> domains specifically. Those may only be registered to local gov't 
> entities. In fact that was how I was able to know the identity of 
> Mike's customer.

I see. Still surely, transferring from a dead registrar to a live
registrar can't be that difficult? I got the info whilst searching for a
way as a foreign entity I could get a .us domain. 
-- 
G. Roderick Singleton <gerry at pathtech.org>
PATH tech