Registering a Locality Based .US Domain?

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."

Comments

UK

[jago25_98]

A very good idea. I'd like to the same for .uk

Unfortunately AFAIK the problem over here is worse, I'm not even sure how to register a foo.uk domain rather than the usual .co.uk ...

Hope we can figure something out

Re:UK

[Otter]

Seems like pretty much every domain that wants to maintain a national identity for their TLD does it that way (which strikes me as entirely sensible). It's primarily the TLDs run as vanity domains (cx, tv, nu) that allow you to routinely register second-level domains. There are exceptions, undoubtedly...

Dynamic DNS, good dsl, and your own server

[t0qer]

Seems like a better solution to me, especially if it's just your photos.