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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. What do we want for .us? by crow · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What sort of policies do we want for .us domains?

    I would like to see them become widely used, but I would also like to see some degree of hierarchical naming enforced.

    I think all .gov and .mil addresses should be changed to .gov.us and .mil.us addresses.

    There should probably be a small set of foo.us domains pre-defined for which people could register bar.foo.us domains.

    mybiz.com.us (US business)
    myname.indv.us (individual)
    mybiz.com.ma.us (Massachussetts local business)

    Or should we require any .co.us domain to have one more generic level in the domain, such as cnn.news.co.us? That would cut down on the problems of namespace collisions.