Are the Benton Foundation and the Media Access Project aware of
this? Is it true? If so, has this been done behind the back of the
RFC process on .us being conducted by the NTIA?
Will you comment on this, please?
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> COMPUTERGRAM INTERNATIONAL: NOVEMBER 21 2000
> + VeriSign to Take Over .US?
>
> VeriSign Inc, operator of the .com, .org and .net domain name
> registries, is to take over the operation of .us, the
> country-code domain for the United States, according to an
> email evidently from the company's Global Registry Services
> division posted to a network operators mailing list.
>
> According to the posting, VeriSign-GRS will take over the
> administration of the .us registry from the Information
> Sciences Institute of the University of Southern California,
> which has operated the TLD since 1993. USC had operated under a
> contract with Network Solutions Inc, which VeriSign bought this
> summer, but has chosen not to renew its contract, the email
> said.
>
> VeriSign spokespeople were not available for comment at press
> time to confirm the details of the switch. Despite being
> introduced before the mass popularization of .com, .us failed
> to achieve widespread acceptance due to its complicated
> geography- based syntax, for example "name.los-angeles.ca.us".
Michael Sondow
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