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Re: Is stuttering the price to pay?

At 6:45 PM +0200 12/28/96, Hank Nussbacher wrote:

> > - Why recommend .com.<ISO 3166> or .co.<ISO 3166> SLDs
> > when most of the names registered under that
> > ISO code are commercial anyway?
>
> The good examples that uk and jp have produced of creating logical
> categories of co or ac makes sense and works.  One of the main reasons
> we are in this bind is that the USA never got its .us domain in order
> and it never took off. We would like that American companies register
> under .us and for that we wanted to elucidate the structure in a general
> way so that any country could pick up the strcuture and run with it.
>

I've tried to register under .COM.US. Here is the response (note the date):

To: simon@higgs.com
Cc: usdomreg@ISI.EDU
Reply-To: usdomreg@isi.edu
Subject: Re: Request for Domain name : HIGGS.COM.US
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 96 13:30:13 PST
From: US Domain Registration <usdomreg@ISI.EDU>

Hi.

Your template has been received by the US Domain Registrar.  If you'd
like to register in some other domain like: COM, ORG, NET, EDU please
contact: Hostmaster@Internic.Net.

Companies, individuals and organizations may register in the US Domain
under the locality namespace.

Locality names are in the form:

		<host-name>.<locality>.<state-code>.US
		Petville.Tacoma.WA.US

The locality name cannot be abbreviated it should be fully spelled
out. If the locality has multiple parts then it should have a hypen.

        <host-name>.SF.CA.US  is not accepted.
        <host-name>.SAN-FRANCISCO.CA.US  is accepted.

        <host-name>.CHI.IL.US is not accepted.
        <host-name>.CHICAGO.IL.US is accepted.

Your requested domain name is not according to the organizational
structure of the US Domain.  Please correct the Fully Qualified Domain
Name throughout the template.

For an Overview of the US Domain and its naming structure, see:

        http://www.isi.edu/us-domain

Thank you,
US Domain Registry

Regards,

Simon

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