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Registering a Locality Based .US Domain?

Posted by Cliff on from the lacking-a-'delegated-zone' dept.

waffle zero asks: "I've been looking for a simple domain to host personal photos and journals. I gave up on getting a .COM or .NET TLD and started looking into one like firstnamelastname.ny.us. NeuStar manages the .US TLD and sub-domains like los-angeles.ca.us are run by third parties (mostly regional ISPs and universities). My local municipality is a small city so there is no 'delegated zone'. The only ones I have seen frequently are of the form k12.ny.us used by primary schools. I would like to hear users experiences working with locality based domains and what it would take to run one for my area."

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  1. nic.us by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    go to http://nic.us/ and find the registration
    forms. You'll need affidavits from your town/city
    government though.
    http://nic.us/register/locality.html

  2. You might want to mail russ nelson? by Bazzargh · · Score: 5, Informative

    I took a gander at the delegated registrars, and one of them is Russ Nelson (of Crynwr driver fame, and who has in the past been a regular poster to /.)

    NY ALEXANDRIA-BAY.NY.US. nelson@crynwr.com

    Since this is clearly an "individual geek" operation like your own, he might be able to help.

    Sorry Russ if this is unwelcome!

    1. Re:You might want to mail russ nelson? by Russ+Nelson · · Score: 4, Informative

      IMHO, you are much better off getting fooSTATE.US than foo.STATE.US. Why? Because that's what Neustar wants you to do, and because it's cheap enough. They've been allowed to destroy the locality.US registry, so run with it.

      Do I sound too cynical? I hope so. I don't want there to be any room for more cynicism where the .us locality domains are concerned.
      -russ

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