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?"

Comments

a new thing?

[emag]

[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.'

Maybe what the should have said is "a new thing for us". I remember several years ago registering a .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.

I can't imagine that things have gotten any better since then, even with a new company handling .us registrations. Since I was rejected, I've gone with a .org domain through joker, and haven't looked back since.

In their attempt to monopolize as much domain registration as possible, VeriSign/NSI has managed to cause a lot more damage for .us than there have been benefits.

not really new

[dirvish]

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).

Re:.us Zone Configuration

[iiii]

Hey, you should know better than to post bad regex around here. :-)

You'll need to escape your dots, like this: :s/\.com/\.us/g Otherwise you might replace somethings you didn't want to, like "thecommons.com" -> "th.usmons.us". Also, you'll probably want to do it on every line, so something like this :%s/\.com/\.us/g or g/\.com/s/\.com/\.us/g would be better.