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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!