dot US

[Kevin Darcy]

.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
> >