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More .us Domain Problems?
possible asks: "My .us domain registrations supposedly went through on April 27th 2002. However, even though register.com's .us FAQ states that you can use their Domain Manager to edit addresses, aliases, MX records, and SOA's for your .us domain, I have not been able to do ANYTHING yet. When I called their technical support on May 1st, they basically said "This is Neustar's fault, in the meantime we have to do everything manually." So I had them set up my MX and name records over the phone. 6 days later, I'm still unable to resolve my domains. Today I called register.com again they told me 'Somehow your zone file got corrupted, you have to realize that .us domains are a new thing and it's not going smoothly for many people.' Some of my friends are having similar .us problems with different registrars. Is anyone else having problems with their .us domains? Does anyone know what the underlying problem is?"
Capitalism.
Any reason you went with the .us domain instead of the old faithful .com?
/. homepage from any particular server, it seems like quite a bad interface design. It started right after /. came back from its 2 hour hiatus earlier. Perhaps some bad code went in?
On a completely side note, why does each article get posted only to its server? This one is on ask.slashdot.org, but normally it would be available from both ask./.org and slashdot.org (no prefix).
Considering that one can't get back to the real
It seems that this and other stories are available from the non-prefixed slashdot.org server, but the Search page and the Main page both link to the specific server. Bad design.
Shouldn't configuring zones for .us domains be as simple as cloning the methods for configuring other zones and doing a giant `s/.com/.us/g`? I suspect there are other changes also involved in the process, but I'm sure they are trivial.
What is Neustar's problem?
Poor planning and implementation. As .us zone records are formated the same as any record, sounds like their backend blew up.
-- mikeDOTd
[register.com] told me 'Somehow your zone file got corrupted, you have to realize that .us domains are a new thing and it's not going smoothly for many people.'
.us back when it was run by someone competent. Once VeriSign/NSI took it over, I knew there'd be problems. I moved across the country after this took place, tried to register a new .us domain using the same application I'd used, substituting for the new state and locality, and was rejected because they couldn't read plain English. They suggested some assinine, misspelled name which was only tangentially related to what I'd requested, even though the domain I was requesting was available.
.us registrations. Since I was rejected, I've gone with a .org domain through joker, and haven't looked back since.
.us than there have been benefits.
Maybe what the should have said is "a new thing for us". I remember several years ago registering a
I can't imagine that things have gotten any better since then, even with a new company handling
In their attempt to monopolize as much domain registration as possible, VeriSign/NSI has managed to cause a lot more damage for
"The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule." --H.L. Mencken
you have to realize that .us domains are a new thing and it's not going smoothly for many people
.us isn't new, it has been around as long as any of the country code domains, it is just new to the registrars. You used to be able to get them for free, although they had fit a specific format (ie name.city.county.state.us or something like that).
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First there was the problem with neustar not putting aside some domain names for public use, and now this crap. Its all to do with the dollar sign being flashed first and service coming a distance second. The .us domain has been around for a while AFAIK. Its just that these compaines are new to handling it. Their incompetence, nothing to do with it being new.
But what can we expect on the domain-registering front nowadays? Look at verisign and bulkregister. Instead of spending money upgrading quality and customer service, they're going to use it to run sleazy campaigns and sue the living daylights out of each other.
Its got to go back to the non-profit organization model. This sorta stuff really stinks.
Think nothing is impossible? Try slamming a revolving door.
".us domains are a new thing"
Like it's hard to handle a TLD. What does it take to support another TLD? Take the scripts for automatically handling 99.99% of all domain configuration issues and do s/.com/.us/
I mean, come on, it's a distributed database for a reason.
Toys"R"Us isn't live either, and I'm sure they're scammed that name right off the bat.
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My father is a blogger.
You ass. This sig just shows how much of a loser karma whore you are. Mods are not done to better/worsen your karma, fool. They are done to FILTER THE DISCUSSION AND MAKE IT BETTER.
Get a life.
Excuse me, but what do problems with your DNS have to do with the .US registry?
.US domains I registered through eNom that work fine thank you very much. I have edited the DNS that eNom provides without issue.
Once your nameserver records are in place, how well your DNS works is dependant on whoever provides your DNS, not the registry.
I have a number of
Justin
I've only had troubles with changing name servers with .us - every name that I registered (through an OpenSRS affiliate) is working fine. The only problem I have seen is that I can't change the name servers from the ones listed on the initial application form.
Still, they're working great as long as I set up the records on the name servers I originally used...
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http://all.your.base.are.belong.to.us/ ;-)
I suffer from attention surplus disorder.
I registered several .us domains (though I got neither calcul.us nor allyourbasearebelongto.us) and was able to update DNS information, etc. the day after .us went live. My registrar is GoDaddy. Only a satisfied customer, no other affiliation, yadda yadda yadda.
is marlo neuman (sp?) .. the guy behind this mess (neustar)
the guy is a moron. he just moved up here to tempe from tucson. the next thing he'll be selling are spaces on telephone polls to companies promising "40lbs in 10 days"
--m
I'll take a hack at this one. Having been a .us registrar (aurora.il.us) for 7 years everyone needs to realize that, for localities, delegation is distributed. While you would fill out a form at the old isi web site, it would look up the local hostmaster and simply pass it along. So if you go fill out the form asking for slashdot.aurora.il.us it will get sent to me.
.us locality registrars in the old days. People like me who run it for the community and, usually, don't charge, and compaines that could become the registrars for up to 200 (I think that was the cap) localities that then changed $10/change trying to hit it big off of billing for domain management. The latter were usually a couple of people living in Florida with two 486s running the nameservers and an old tape answering machine. It would usually take a month for them to make a change, and they would usually do it wrong anyway, and it would take another month -- then you would get a bill for $10.
.us space looking for a buck.
When Neustar took over they, first off, sent us pages and pages of documents to fill out. The big technical change is that they required us to allow zone updates to be pushed from their servers. My guess is that they want to be able to bill people for an aurora.il.us registration and have it entered automatically that way, bypassing the possible human failure point that is introduced under the old system when a request was mailed. That pretty much would have prevented anyone from billing for changes because the "registrar" would not be able to guarantee that the changes were entered. This thought is backed up by a lot of the questions in the aforementioned paperwork asking indirectly about if we would expect a cut if someone started changing for registrations.
So the problems reported may be that the person running the nameserver simply did not change the ACL allowing Neustar to push down changes. Now remember that there were two types of
Just thought I would share this lest anyone think that Neustar were the first to screw up the
--chris
The .us top level domain is nothing new at all. I know that the Hawaii Department of Education has been using the domain k12.hi.us for at least the past 5 years...at least that's how long I've had and email address with them. However, their web site does also have problems, and frequently won't resolve. It has become more reliable in recent months, however, it's still slow to resolve. It seems to be the worst on Fridays for some reason. But anyway, with a domain that's been around for at least half a decade, they should have the kinks worked out by now, especially if your registrar is the US Government! It seems that the problems with this domain run quite deep indeed.
Karma: Ran over your dogma.
It sounds like register.com is passing the blame. I have several .us domains through several different registrars (none of which are register.com), and they all work perfectly fine (all changes I make take place almost immediately).
I suspect that your problems have more to do with RCOM than with Neulevel.
.US domain be physically located in the U.S. of A. is up there on the dumb idea scale. The point of DNS is redundancy. Why put all your nameservers in the same basket?]
.US registry is a "new thing". Managing DNS isn't, and that's what your problem likely is. Go check out easyDNS or another outsourced DNS company.
If you register the name through RCOM, then their job is to take your money ('natch), and send the info to Neulevel, who *only* needs to know who your nameservers are.
[Although, Neulevel's requirement that any nameservers for a
From then on, your zone file and MX settings, etc., are handled by your DNS provider (i.e. whoever runs your nameservers). If RCOM said your "zone file got corrupted", it sounds like they are covering up for some other incompetence.
Sure the
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