Talk:.us/Archive 1

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I see Puerto Rico has a top-level domain, does anybody know about the other US territories, do they have second-level domains under ".us"?Rt66lt 15:19, 7 April 2006 (UTC) I found my own answer. I think it should be added to this page, and I'll do it.Rt66lt 15:22, 7 April 2006 (UTC)
 * US Virgin Islands has a top level domain (.vi) as well as a 2nd level domain under .us, which is not listed on this page... Tafinucane 21:14, 20 September 2006 (UTC)

Since the official release of .us as a second-level domain, Is that just a typo or what does it mean? Second-level domain to which top-level domain? .us.com?

*o.us
Should there be some mention of the recent del.icio.us/script.aculo.us style domains? Ibroadfo 14:08, 9 November 2006 (UTC)
 * There's an article domain hacks about this sort of thing, also the list of domain hacks lists quite a few (like "call.us" as a Texas law firm). Using .as or .us as the corresponding dictionary words is almost too easy. --66.102.80.239 05:29, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

zipcodes.us
Apparently the zipcode.us project, which creates domains like 90210.us for California, is based largely on individual city articles scraped from en.wikipedia, and presented along with ads from various .us domains. As postal codes and telephone numbers are reserved, this project is presumably part of the Neustar .us registry itself, but I don't think there's much (if any) info on it in Wikipedia yet. I'd added a one-line mention of it to this page. Is it notable, or just more new.net spam? --66.102.80.239 05:18, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

as.us, pr.us
All two character combinations are reserved, who is to say that these are for American Samoa and Puerto Rico? It could also be said that dq.us stands for Jarvis Island. --Henry W. Schmitt (talk) 02:21, 9 December 2007 (UTC)


 * A search engine finds plenty of site:.vi.us listings (mostly k12 sites) but nothing for .as.us or .pr.us - not sure why. Legally, one would expect the US Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico to each have same or similar status?


 * According to, "III. Domain Delegations for Undelegated Domains: In keeping with the goal of centralizing the technical function of the usTLD, all of the currently undelegated names in the identified usTLD structure will, in the interim, be delegated1 to NeuStar. Specifically, NeuStar will be the delegated manager for the following domains to the extent that they were not delegated prior to NeuStar’s acceptance of the administrator role:2


 * .us
 * .us
 * . .us
 * lib. .us
 * k12. .us
 * pvt. k12. .us
 * cc. .us
 * 1) A “delegation” results in the entire authority and responsibility over a given name being assigned to another party. Delegations are implemented via NS (or nameserver) records.
 * 2) Labels indicated by “ ” are labels that may have any number of entries. For example, indicates any of the two-letter postal codes for the states of the United States and its possessions and territories." --66.102.80.212 (talk) 15:24, 23 December 2007 (UTC)

Dead link
During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!


 * http://town.florence.az.us/
 * In .us on 2011-05-20 22:33:13, Socket Error: 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'
 * In .us on 2011-05-31 15:16:03, Socket Error: 'No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it'

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * They appear to be using a .gov domain now. Switched to http://town.sandwich.nh.us/ HeLmiT (talk) 18:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Dead link 2

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!


 * http://co.greene.oh.us/
 * In .us on 2011-05-20 22:33:18, 400 Bad Request
 * In .us on 2011-05-31 15:16:11, 400 Bad Request

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Prepended www. to get it working. HeLmiT (talk) 18:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Dead link 3

During several automated bot runs the following external link was found to be unavailable. Please check if the link is in fact down and fix or remove it in that case!


 * http://co.adams.id.us/
 * In .us on 2011-05-20 22:33:33, Socket Error: 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'
 * In .us on 2011-05-31 15:16:22, Socket Error: 'A connection attempt failed because the connected party did not properly respond after a period of time, or established connection failed because connected host has failed to respond'

--JeffGBot (talk) 15:16, 31 May 2011 (UTC)
 * Prepended www. to get it working. HeLmiT (talk) 18:26, 31 May 2011 (UTC)

Fourth-level domain name registration [?]
Any clue on how one may register a domain name that is locality-based?

eg, www.puentehillsmall.cityofindustry.ca.us (?)

None of the major domain registrars seems to have a clue about this.

Pine 23:32, 4 April 2007 (UTC)


 * That was delegated to a number of different local registrars/registries... but I don't know what happened to them after second-level registrations were opened up. *Dan T.* 00:05, 5 April 2007 (UTC)

My understanding is that locality-based domain name registration is largely discontinued. At one time, the procedure was to contact the delegated domain manager for your locality, usually a local business, etc. There is an old list of locality domains and the domain managers here: http://www.neustar.us/register/delegated_subdomains.txt. But I think when the second-level registrations were opened up, support for locality-based domains was largely dropped. JasonLong 17:48, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * As of February 2014, Neustar states that "Most existing locality-based domain names are managed by Delegated Managers. These existing registrations will continue to operate as normal. Name registrations for names that are not currently managed by a Delegated Manager will be handled by Neustar directly."  So you should be able to obtain new locality/state-based registration through Neustar.  See http://www.neustar.us/locality-based-name-registrations/  87.114.112.151 (talk) 21:48, 15 February 2014 (UTC)

Spam Reference
Reference 8 "A Counter Culture Dies : Zucky's Deli Suddenly Closes After 39 Years in Santa Monica" has nothing to do with the content of this article — Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.229.40.100 (talk) 17:24, 1 May 2015 (UTC)

k12 domains
Does anyone know why schools use k12 in their domain and what that means?

orschiro (talk) 12:26, 19 June 2017 (UTC)
 * This is a very old question, but in case anyone else is wondering the same, see K-12. clpo13(talk) 19:51, 20 November 2018 (UTC)

.go.us, .or.us, .co.us?!?
The keyboard on my Android/Samsung phone is insisting that the above domain extensions should be under serious consideration when I type a web address. I searched DuckDuckGo and en.Wikipedia for a while with various search strings and I could not find the first one. I don't have the wherewithal to find resources that would back up including the above in any article, but I put this here out of bafflement that these extensions would be suggested by my keyboard. Thanks if you do have the time! Geekdiva (talk) 07:09, 6 June 2020 (UTC)
 * The two character .us subdomains are generally the state two letter codes so .co.us would be Colorado sites and .or.us would be Oregon. ( List of U.S. state abbreviations ) Not sure about .go.us though. Jmccormac (talk) 01:17, 7 June 2020 (UTC)