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Consumer Groups Decry 'Dot-US' Policies

Posted by timothy on from the word-of-the-day-is-mercantile dept.

JThaddeus writes: "The Washington Post reports that nonprofits are complaining about how NeuStar Inc. registered '.us' names on a first-come, first-served basis. 'While NeuStar did set aside some generic names, such as parks.us and kids.us, several nonprofit groups accused the company of making those decisions arbitrarily.' Some of these names have policy implications."

2 of 16 comments (clear)

  1. As a small website operator... by Profane+Motherfucker · · Score: 0, Troll

    I want to make a site that has some silly shit about mp3s playing though speakers made of meat, and a section devoted to making a computer case out of lard. Then, I'll post the fucker to slashdot, but everyone will applaud my sufuckingperior intellect when the notice the website is please-slashdot.us.

    Yeah, that'd be some silly shit.

  2. DELIBERATELY trying to break slashdot?? The horror by repoleved · · Score: 0, Troll

    [A HREF="http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/article s/A2413-2002Apr29.html"]
    nonprofits are complaining about how
    [A HREF="http://www.neustar.us/"]NeuStar Inc.[/A]
    registered '.us' names on a first-come, first-served basis.
    'While NeuStar did set aside some generic names, such as parks.us
    and kids.us, several nonprofit groups accused the company of making
    those decisions arbitrarily.' Some of these names have policy implications."[/i]

    lemme see... a tag within a tag... and an incorrect end tag.

    tsk.tsk..