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Small Business Administration Objects to .US Deal

Posted by michael on from the standing-up-for-the-little-guy dept.

rlarner writes: "The United States Small Business Administration has written a letter to the NTIA that challenges the .US sale. The SBA claims that the UDRP and sunrise period were not properly enacted - they needed comment periods, etc. The letter is here." We've done a few previous stories about the handling of .us. Free registration of second-level domains under .us were supposed to go live shortly.

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  1. I'm probably going to get flamed for this... by mystery_bowler · · Score: 4, Insightful

    ...but I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that the organization that doles out .US domains to give trademark holders a brief time to buy their domains. It's not like the sales of domain names would be stagnant, that's for sure, so no money would be lost there. And if a company interested in having their trademark with a .US domain doesn't respond in time (I dunno, a week? Two?) then tough luck. Resolve your cybersquatting issues in court, because you had your chance.

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  2. This is getting silly. by gpinzone · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why bother having new domains if anyone that has a ".com" is going to end up having first crack buying every other "dot" extension under the sun?