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.us Domains Coming in 2002

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the insert-witty-ends-with-us-joke-here dept.

marnanel writes "Perhaps it had to happen eventually: the .us top-level domain has been transferred to a private company, NeuStar. One of the most interesting effects of this is that second-level domains, such as foo.us, will be available for the first time, instead of the existing hierarchical county.state.us system." But not until mid 2002.

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  1. Fair. by famazza · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    I always thought it's fair that US companies register themselves as .com without .country sufix. It's fair because internet has born in US.

    But ITOH every country has its own sufix and US has none. Now each country has its own sufix and also can register a "country-sufix-less" domain. It's much more fair to everybody.

    Well, it's good to have .us domains, for me it sounds that www is becoming much more world than web.

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  2. Ack. by Scoria · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    While a little OT (read the whole comment, moderators, before modding me down), let's hope the Government doesn't go ahead with "online voting." Imagine the heightened possibility of fraud.

    "Alternate voting site: scriptkiddies.nebraska.state.us"

    Some people not knowledgeable enough to know the difference could be tricked into giving away their SSN, name, home address... everything somebody needs to make credit cards out of them.

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  3. And what this means is: by Kymermosst · · Score: 3, Flamebait

    The last bit of organization associated with United States centric domain name organization is gone.

    It sucked when .net, .org, and .com were relegated to equals rather than their intended purpose.

    Now .us will just be the same.

    The evolution of things? It's like this:

    1. In the beginning, commercial companies who were not network infrastructure providers could only register .com, thus leaving .org and .net free for nonprofit orgs and network providers.

    2. Bill Clinton came along and gave the internet to the corporations, and suddenly U.S. companies registered their names in .com, .net, and .org. Thus, using even more namespace.

    3. .biz comes along, and those same companies will now have FOUR names in the namespace.

    4. Now .us will be exactly the same. Now those companies will just have mytrademark.com, mytrademark.net, mytrademark.org, mytrademark.biz, and NOW mytrademark.us.

    So, can anyone tell me what good this move is, rather than making them register under county.state.us?

    Anyone else remember when domain names were free and you never got spam on usenet or e-mail? It was the giving up of .org and .net brought about by Clinton-Gore that got us where we are today.

    When Gore "invented" the internet, what he and Clinton invented was the destruction of it's beauty as a free exchange that wasn't dominated by giant corporations wielding laws like the DMCA.

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  4. Re:.edu and .gov by nomadic · · Score: 1, Flamebait

    Why? I'm usually the least jingoistic American in the room, but it WAS invented here, and it was intended to be a US-centric network. Should the US really be penalized for being generous enough to let everyone else onto it?

    Plus, non-US organizations are free to use the non-country specific TLDs. Check out london.edu, nokia.com, or un.org.