.US has passed two million domain names for the first time since the extension was unched 31 years ago.
Yes .US was launched on February 15, 1985; 31 years ago as the first ccTLD.
ON the last day of the $.10 sale by the domain name registrar Uniregistry.com, .US domains had a net add of 28,000 domains making the total amount of .US domain registrations at 2,001,216.
As of March of 2016 there were just over 1.7 million .US domains registered.
The .US extension is managed by Neustar (NSR).
Under .us nexus requirements, .us domains may be registered only by the following qualified entities:
Any United States citizen or resident,
Any United States entity, such as organizations or corporations,
Any foreign entity or organization with a bona fide presence in the United States
.US launched to the public in 2002.
“On April 24, 2002, second-level domains under .us became available for registration.”
Konstantinos, you’re absolutely right about .US launching to the general public on Wednesday, April 24, 2002, which is exactly when PHONE.US was registered. It is actually one of the first .US domains to be publicly registered which makes it historical.
Mike should’ve mentioned when the ccTLD launched to the public.
I can tell you right now there are many people outside the USA not within the guidelines registering these names, it will piss alot of small business owners off if they go to register a name, but whatever the gtlds forced the hand, and there are many options, next year same time it will go back under unless you renew at a dime
Seems the nexus requirement is not really enforced even if it officially exists.
I wonder why the whole $ .10 thing happen in the first place.???
They saw what it did with .xyz, got a buzz going, supply and demand is thrown out of wack, it is not natural, so it has a short term effect
See below.
This .US Domain Name Wire thread from Wednesday was particularly interesting:
“From 10-cent domains to revved up marketing and policy changes, .US might finally go somewhere”
http : // domainnamewire . com/2016/10/05/us-domain-names/
This is something I wrote over there:
“Has it occurred to anyone now that this great ICANN “transition” has just occurred, that it casts .US in a whole new light, and elevates .US to a whole new status?
.US is now the only TLD which serves and functions as both a gTLD and a ccTLD over which the United States is now completely or effectively completely sovereign. Think about that.
Someone else can correct me if I’m mistaken, but you can now no longer say that about any other TLD on earth – not .com, .net, .org, and not even .gov or .mil anymore either.”
(http : // domainnamewire . com/2016/10/05/us-domain-names/#comment-2241293)
That occurred to anyone lately after this great IANA “transition”?
ICANN inherited from its predecessors a policy that country level TLD (ccTLD’s) were delegated to the sovereign government of the country. ICANN also inherited a policy for com org and net allowing free for all registration and no oversight of content. Both or either of these policies could be changed by ICANN overnight.
Technologically, US is the exact equivalent of com org net club, etc. It won’t work if it is taken out of the root nameservers, and it will resolve according to the data in the nameservers the roots point to. So ICANN could take UK and point it to some other authority (delegate it to other nameservers). I don’t think there is any legal obligation to delegate ccTLD’s to some particular authority – there is a tradition and existing practice. If there are existing agreemants with the countries, ICANN could change policy when thay expire.
Even if what you are saying is technically accurate, the “transition” still casts .US in a whole new light and elevates it to a whole new status in the way I described for all intents and purposes. Only the most far-fetched and unrealistic of fantasies could ever imagine ICANN attempting to separate the United States from .US or disable it, and even if such a far fetched thought were ever attempted I’m confident the US would do something to effectively nullify it. The United States no longer has the kind of relationship with .com, .net, .org or any other TLD that it has with .US. That’s the bottom line.
I thought it was a far fetched fantasy that the United States would buy all the fraudulent worthless real estate securities Wall Street cranked out, but when things got really scary that is just what they did. They renamed the dishonest bank relief program into the troubled asset relief program and bought up everything at par.
Maybe ICANN will send a letter to the US registry with a list of domains that must be shut down. If US cannot cooperate with the international consensus ICANN will sadly just have to consider redelegating the TLD to a more cooperative administrator in the US. For all those registration fees there will be lots of companies willing to bid on the contract.
I wonder if the administration considered the possibility that in the middle of some regional conflict the international consensus became that the USA was a war monger and ICANN decided to delete .mil from the roots. Suddenly millions of soldiers and airmen and sailors official email addresses would not work. We would work around it in a couple weeks I suppose 🙂
After all ICANN speaks for the international consensus and the USA only its narrow interests
the new TLDs increase the prices’ competition of old TLDs
Check this out now:
“.US Hosts its Annual Town Hall Meeting”
http : // www . circleid . com/posts/20161013_dot_us_hosts_its_annual_town_hall_meeting/
Why am I not surprised that would be posted on a site which to the best of my knowledge does not allow you to post anonymously using a screen name?
Correction, more like they require your name for sign-up, and pretty sure I’ve been blocked a few times before trying to do so and post anonymously. But I won’t lie and give a fake name, which would be easy.