Directories

We have met the Enemy, and he is .US

icann.Blog is doing an excellent job of following the .us top-level domain sell-out.

NeuStar's plans, if you could call them that, have struck me as having a fatal flaw from the beginning: the namespace is too small. There will be inevitable collisions at the top-level because registrations are allowed there, instead of being relegated to .com.us, or, more appropriately, considering the sites I've seen today, at .cum.us. Take, for example, me. I'd like to have a short, memorable domain name using my last name. Cox Communications would probably like the exact same one.

It entered the WHOIS database just as I finished handing over my plastic. What a farce.

6:21:26 PM # Google It!
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