Most of you know the issue facing dotUS. It boils down to whether Neustar get to keep the .US contract, or if .US gets awarded to a superior manager like the proposed Alliance Registry (GoDaddy + Afilias). Here's the thread link: http://www.namepros.com/dot-us/356276-fasten-your-seatbelts-boys-and-girls.html
At this stage of the game, it will be helpful for members to send an email to the Dept. of Commerce expressing your honest opinion regarding the efforts of Neustar (who currently oversee .US). A good number of people, myself included, feel that Neustar have shown little initiative and follow-through in advancing dotUS, and that the new Alliance Registry (GoDaddy + Afilias) would exercise much better promotion and management of the .US extension. If interested, please send your email to: [email protected] Your expressed thoughts on the matter can make a difference in who is awarded the .US contract!
It is my view that Neustar have shown rather poor promotional efforts, and appear to have not accomplished much with US search and zip code directory, or e-gov services.
I have been in direct communication with Neustar about the enormous number of US states (California.US, NewYork.US, NorthCarolina.US, Georgia.US, and many others) that forward back to a Neustar landing page or don't even resolve at all. That the state entities are letting these domains sit dead/idle is a terrible waste. I would have hoped that Neustar might have required official state government to at least have a modest functioning website for their .US state domain. In fact, some of the States have not even had listed nameservers (for years!) resulting in a dead link to the official state .US site. (Thanks Neustar for your oversight!,
) Did Neustar intervene to aid the states? Not that I can tell. Alas, I was just informed by Neustar that states can do whatever they want with the offical .US state domain name. That seems to me that Neustar have little regard for .US --- allowing state governments to have a deadlink to their official .US state government website! Think about that for a second. Is that the kind of "oversight" and disregard we want for .US over the next few years?
I will get off my soapbox now. If you feel this cause is worth an email to the DoC [email protected], then please go for it. Thanks for your support of the .US namespace.
At this stage of the game, it will be helpful for members to send an email to the Dept. of Commerce expressing your honest opinion regarding the efforts of Neustar (who currently oversee .US). A good number of people, myself included, feel that Neustar have shown little initiative and follow-through in advancing dotUS, and that the new Alliance Registry (GoDaddy + Afilias) would exercise much better promotion and management of the .US extension. If interested, please send your email to: [email protected] Your expressed thoughts on the matter can make a difference in who is awarded the .US contract!
It is my view that Neustar have shown rather poor promotional efforts, and appear to have not accomplished much with US search and zip code directory, or e-gov services.
I have been in direct communication with Neustar about the enormous number of US states (California.US, NewYork.US, NorthCarolina.US, Georgia.US, and many others) that forward back to a Neustar landing page or don't even resolve at all. That the state entities are letting these domains sit dead/idle is a terrible waste. I would have hoped that Neustar might have required official state government to at least have a modest functioning website for their .US state domain. In fact, some of the States have not even had listed nameservers (for years!) resulting in a dead link to the official state .US site. (Thanks Neustar for your oversight!,
) Did Neustar intervene to aid the states? Not that I can tell. Alas, I was just informed by Neustar that states can do whatever they want with the offical .US state domain name. That seems to me that Neustar have little regard for .US --- allowing state governments to have a deadlink to their official .US state government website! Think about that for a second. Is that the kind of "oversight" and disregard we want for .US over the next few years?I will get off my soapbox now. If you feel this cause is worth an email to the DoC [email protected], then please go for it. Thanks for your support of the .US namespace.
