Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!spdcc!dyer
From: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Newsgroups: news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: How to sign-up a host in the .US Domain.
Message-ID: <1477@spdcc.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 88 17:36:42 GMT
References: <8807141838.0.UUL1.3#948@Fernwood.MPK.CA.US> <3441@palo-alto.DEC.COM> <1096@maynard.BSW.COM>
Reply-To: dyer@spdcc.COM (Steve Dyer)
Organization: S.P. Dyer Computer Consulting, Cambridge MA
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In article <1096@maynard.BSW.COM> campbell@maynard.UUCP (Larry Campbell) writes:
>Why would we want to register under the .US domain?  We're already registered
>under the .COM domain.  Is this some crypto-socialist CCITT/ISO/UN plot
>to sap us of our precious bodily fluids?

I get the impression that .US is primarily for individual private hosts
which fit with difficulty into the existing domain structure.
Nevertheless, the requirement (if it truly is so) that 2nd-level
domains must be states and 3rd-level domains must be cities is truly
bizarre.  Does anyone have the whole story, including the rationale
for why this was done?

-- 
Steve Dyer
dyer@harvard.harvard.edu
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