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On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote: > 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. Except for some dude in Norwalk Connecticut. Charles > > -----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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