.us domain request denied ????

Kevin Darcy kcd at daimlerchrysler.com
Tue Nov 28 19:49:47 UTC 2000


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.


- Kevin





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