North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical RE: NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this
Duh! You haven't been keeping up. ICANN/DNSO/GA knew about this *months* ago. In fact, there is an RFP out for managing US. There's problems with the contract though, so there aren't many bidders. US is a royal mess that many don't want to touch. > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:41 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this > > > > > I thought this might be of interest: > > The whois for .us had been working a few weeks ago, but > hadn't been since > then. I dropped an email to [email protected] (who had been hosting the > whois server until a few weeks ago) and cc'd [email protected] > and got the > following responses: > > Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:21:22 -0700 > From: IPC Computing Services <[email protected]> > To: James Smallacombe <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > Subject: Re: {2001.08.445} .us TLD whois not in DNS > > > > http://www.nic.us/register/whois.html > > > > Instructs one to use whois.isi.edu > > > > for whois queries on the .us TLD. It's not in DNS: > > > > [richard namedb james]$ traceroute whois.isi.edu > > traceroute: unknown host whois.isi.edu > > > > Could you please look into this and let me know if either > the website > > is wrong or this will be fixed? > > > At the request of the US Department of Commerce, USC/ISI transitioned > all support for the US Domain to Verisign at the end of 2000. We > appologize that the Verisign supported web site still points to > USC/ISI resources but we have no control over their publication of > data. > > IPC Computing Services > > ------- > 31 hours later from the new registrar (Verisign): > > Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 19:27:10 -0400 > From: US domreg <[email protected]> > To: James Smallacombe <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: .us TLD whois not in DNS > > > Dear James, > > Thank you for contacting the US Domain Registry. > > The whois database was run by ISI until recently. The whois > server has > now > been taken offline and so there is no .us whois server > currently. We are > currently working on a replacement but there is no estimate > on how long > that > will take. In the meantime, if there are specific domains you wish to > have > information on, please email them to us and we will manually find the > information for you. > > Regards, > > US Domain Registry > www.nic.us > [email protected] > > ============================================================== > ================= > > > ok, so .us isn't very widely used, but why then, did the DOC > give it to > Verisign? > > James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor > [email protected] http://3.am =========================================================================
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