Terry,
The official contracts for the US Domain always resided with NSI. ISI was,
in a sense, a subcontractor for NSI to run the US Domain (it all has to do
with the NSF InterNIC contracts and that whole mess).
The US DOC is planning to put out a RFP for the US Domain sometime in 2001.
See http://www.ntia.doc.gov/ntiahome/domainname/usrfc2/dotusrfc2.htm.
Thanks,
Josh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Terry Knab
> Sent: Saturday, December 16, 2000 8:01 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: the .US domain
>
>
> Does anyone know when or how Verisign/NSI got involved with the management
> of the .us domain? I assume ISI just decided to get out of it and NSI
> stepped in?
>
> www.us is the main website for .us
>
> And when/if anyone's going to figure out how to fix the major problems .us
> has (Like the hokey-un-userfriendly registration process?)
>
>
