Has anyone ever registered a .us domain? I have a potential web client
whose preferred .com name is already taken (of course). They asked me about
registering the .us equivalent. The way I read the below, they include
geographic info (state and locality) and so become rather long and
unwieldy. My client is thinking they can get something like
www.mybusiness.com.us
but I don't think it works that way. They would actually end up with
something like:
www.mybusiness.sanfrancisco.ca.us
which is not very appealing. Thanks for any commments.
Barry Lee Brisco
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http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/usdnr/usdom-overview.html
Who can Register
Anyone can register under the US Domain as long as the naming structure is
followed.
The US Domain currently registers businesses, individuals, federal
government agencies, state government agencies, K12 schools, community
colleges, technical/vocational schools, private schools, libraries,
museums, city and county government agencies.
Naming Structure
The US Domain hierarchy is based on political geography. The basic
namespace under US is the state name space, then the "locality" name space,
(like a city, or county) then organization or computer names and so on. The
state codes are those assigned by the US Postal Service. For example: "CA"
California. Figure 2 shows a view of second level domains under US.
Locality Names
Within the state name space there are "locality" names, which may be
cities, or counties (parishes or townships), or local names.
For small entities like individuals or small businesses there is usually no
problem with selecting locality based names. For example:
Quake.Sylmar.CA.US.
For large entities like large corporations with multiple facilities in
several cities or states this often seems like an unreasonable constraint
(especially when compared with the alternative of registering directly in
the COM domain). However, a company does have a head office in a particular
locality and so could register with that name. For example:
IBM.Armonk.NY.US
Microsoft.Redmond.WA.US
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