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 Lines: 16 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 dyer@spdcc.COM aka {ihnp4,harvard,husc6,linus,ima,bbn,m2c}!spdcc!dyer