NeuStar to Manage .US Registry

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NeuStar to Manage .US Registry

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday October 30, 2001 @11:48AM from the slashdot.us-is-a-little-too-literal dept.

flatt writes: "The US Government picked NeuStar, the managers of the upcoming .biz registry, to manage the .us registry today. NeuStar has made a press release and there's an AP article over at Excite about it. Finally a country code that I'll register in." This has been brewing for a long time, and has been criticized as a giveaway.

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Now! Register your domains! by afree87 · 2001-10-30 12:04 · Score: 4, Funny

http://dont.slashdot.us/
http://please.kug.us/
h ttp://nimda.vir.us/
1. Re:Now! Register your domains! by TeknoHog · 2001-10-30 12:48 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  all.your.base.are.belong.to.us
  (no http:// coz I fail to understand what it has to do with domain names)
  
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new TLD's by rossdee · 2001-10-30 12:04 · Score: 5, Funny

"The US Government picked NeuStar, the managers of the upcoming .biz registry, to manage the .us registry today."

So will there also be a .them TLD ?
Hey, I've got an idea! by Anml4ixoye · 2001-10-30 12:12 · Score: 3, Funny

Let's just open up every single TLD to whoever wants to take it! No reason .edu should mean that it is a university, or that .org should be an organization, or that any of the TLDs should stay what they were meant for!

I can see it now. We are already having to fight over two TLD's (one that was squatted (.com) and one that was given to the wrong people (.co.hillsborough.fl.us). Now we are going to have to buy and maintain 17 seperate web addresses just to point them all to one server so that people can find us. Great! Can't wait!

I know this has been mentioned before, but what is the point of opening up the TLDs? Companies are just going to have to buy the ones (or sue to steal them back) that infringe upon them. So why not leave them alone?

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Everyone's got a way to take advantage of 9-11 by filrock · 2001-10-30 12:26 · Score: 2, Funny

NeuStar officials are hoping to change that attitude and said recent terrorism events may give ".us" even more of a boost.

"The fact is right now, ... American identification is of increased importance," said Jeff Ganek, NeuStar's chairman and chief executive.

Be patriotic! Get your .us domain now! You're not in with Osama are you? Then you better make sure everyone that looks at your URL can tell you're american!
in other news... by Malachite · 2001-10-30 12:33 · Score: 5, Funny

...the number of stupid webpages sporting american flags and those silly "osama bin laden: wanted dead or alive" posters is expected to skyrocket.
Article title by Syberghost · 2001-10-30 12:36 · Score: 2, Funny

My submission (early yesterday) had a better title:

All Your Domain Are Belong to .US
All you .us are belong to base! by Anonymous Coward · 2001-10-30 12:37 · Score: 0, Funny

Sorry, couldn't help.
Re:.us by Guillaume+Ross · 2001-10-30 13:42 · Score: 2, Funny

They'll screw.us !