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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. BFD. by supabeast! · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Now I can watch companies sue everyone in sight over ownership of .us domains, too! Whee!

    On the upside for NeuStar, they are sure to make a fortune from all the companies sick of getting into lawsuits over this sort of thing and buy thier .us domains right away. May I pet your Ferraris?

  2. .edu and .gov by jeriqo · · Score: 4, Insightful

    What will happen to these TLDs: .EDU and .GOV ?
    Since they are only used by the US governement and US schools, i think they should be moved to .EDU.US and .GOV.US

    Just my thoughts..

    -J

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    1. Re:.edu and .gov by 1alpha7 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      I think that the good people at CERN would disagree with that statement.

      You're thinking of Tim's development of the Web. The Interent and the Web are not synonymous.

      1Alpha7

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  3. finally by erikdalen · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Finally USA gets a top domain like all the other countries have. It might bring some order to the chaos.

    Now if only .gov and .mil could be transferred to .gov.us and .mil.us it would almost be a perfect world :)

    /Erik

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  4. (Sigh) by Ed+Avis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Dammit, why couldn't they take the opportunity to do it *right* for a change? .com.us domains should be given only to a real corporation with that name. .tm.us should be administered by the USPTO and subdomains given strictly on the basis of trademark ownership. Conversely, trademark considerations should not impinge on the other subdomains - as long as it is clear that this is the case, so nobody gets misled.

    You could also have .org.us strictly for non-profits (or maybe .charity.us for legally recognized tax-exempt charities), .fcfs.us for strictly first-come-first-served assignment, and so on.

    Still, one positive feature of the new setup is that there won't be artificial scarcity created underneath the .us domain. Someone can buy .co.us and happily hand out the levels below that. At least until the lawyers get their hands into it...

    (Possible new business for Sealand: lawyer-proof .sealand domain names. If you can get yourself assigned a country code that is.)

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  5. Who let the optimist in here? by john@iastate.edu · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Finally USA gets a top domain like all the other countries have. It might bring some order to the chaos.

    First, we've have a top level domain like all the other contries have had -- each with their own rules and rulers -- it's just that ours were outstandingly misguided.

    However, I have little confidence that the new ones will be any better. In any event, there is no chance that <big-american-corp> is going to give up <big-american-corp>.com -- they'll just have <big-american-corp>.com.us too -- wheeee, won't that be special!

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  6. Re:Finally by altair1 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    these "all your base" jokes are really really old. i dont know how they get modded up anymore, this was not funny at all...