NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this

Fri Aug 10 02:18:47 UTC 2001

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: up at 3.am [mailto:up at 3.am]
> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:41 PM
> To: nanog at merit.edu
> 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 action at isi.edu (who had been hosting the
> whois server until a few weeks ago) and cc'd usdomreg at nic.us 
> and got the
> following responses:
> 
> Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:21:22 -0700
> From: IPC Computing Services <action at ISI.EDU>
> To: James Smallacombe <james at pil.net>
> Cc: action at ISI.EDU, action-team at ISI.EDU
> 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 <usdomreg at nic.us>
> To: James Smallacombe <james at pil.net>
> Cc: usreply at nic.us
> 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
> usdomreg at nic.us
> 
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> 
> 
> 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
> up at 3.am							
    http://3.am
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