I was wondering if anyone else has registered their .us?

I'm going to register my personal .us. They seem to have very strict requirements as to what you can register.
(ie for a single person they can only register name.city.state.us)

Like I said, I applied for my personal .us, but also, do you think it would be a good idea to register my company as a .us? Does anybody have any experience using .us's?

Kyle

The .us registry was just sold, so the whole process is going to change. Instead of all the you.city.state.us stuff, it will now be like .com .net and .org

Nooooo... in some ways, I thought that system at least made sense. I mean, the whole point of the 'new' TLD's was that we were running out of .com's (don't get me going on this subject, I could type for pages). At least the .us registry had a system...

It's not really accurate to say the the .us registry was "sold." It belongs to the US Department of Commerce. The recent change is that the Commerce Department just -- a few days ago --awarded a four year contract for NeuStar, Inc. to take over management of the registry. It's lately been managed by Verisign. There are supposedly plans to add enhanced services and make .us names more easily available, but I don't really know how far that will go to doing away with the current hierarchical naming structure.

I just looked at the registry website, and they haven't made any changes yet: http://www.nic.us/


Found the RFP from the Commerce Department, which says that they'll both retain the current structure and develop a way to make available a more typical tld structure. So names like companyname.us will be available at some point.

http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usca/uspo.pdf

I never knew any of this was going on, and I don't like any of it. I liked the structure of the .us domains, it made sense. It was unique and reasonable, and it should stay the way it is.

Kyle

Will the domains still be offered free of charge as they have been in the past?

Thanks!