.us .US Domain Nameservers - Important.

[Lasher]

This was discussed briefly last night, but is worth highlighting and repeating separately. In order to comply with .US nexus requirements, the nameservers must be based in the USA. This means that any domains parked with Namedrive (and possibly others) are not compliant as their nameservers are in Canada:

Taken from a Neustar "compliance check" email:

As part of our verification process, we ask that you provide to us by no later than ten (10) days after the date set forth above, a written response describing how you qualify under the above Nexus category.

In addition, please verify that the name-servers that you have selected to use are also physically located within the United States as required by the Nexus Requirements.

As .US names gain more recognition and increase in value, sharks will be out trying to turn in non-compliant names and placing backorders for them. Guard your names.

 

[duceman]

Thanks Lasher, I had about 40 parked with Fabulous (Australia) just moved them.

 

[irishmat]

how can you check where the dns are based?

 

[Ives Leutenegger]

How to

Just ping your ns address and enter the IP address at:

http://www.ip-adress.com/

Cheery,

Ives

 

[irishmat]

anyone know a free redirection service with US dns, the one i use at the minute seems to have canadian dns

 

[Lasher]

Domaintools will show you based on geo info for the I/P address.

NS1.sedoparking.com - Germany - ouch.

Btw, for domains at GD/Moniker and other USA based registars, there's nothing to prevent you parking with Namedrive/Fabulous/etc, you'll just need to use URL forwarding instead of having the nameservers set to the DNS of the parking company. Or if you're comfortable with editing DNS host records, create wildcard subdomains to your parking company of choice.

 

[Kate]

That sucks. Usually the ccTLDs that insist on local DNS are the regimes that practice heavy censorship of the Internet (for example Tunisia).

 

[IAmAllanShore]

I'm not doubting the email, but I'm still not seeing that term in their published policies. I may be missing it entirely, but similar to our discussion in the other thread, I just can't find it.

-Allan :gl:

 

[Lasher]

I know Allen, very confusing. After you challenged me on it last night I could find no reference to it so withdrew the comment. Purely coincidence that it came up again today in that compliance email.

I think it's about time to just set up my own DNS server and then ALL my domains can go through that. It will probably be quicker than editing every single one of my domains in the GD control panel to turn on URL forwarding.

 

[capiche]

Thanks for the info Lasher. I also have all of my .us at Fabulous. Going to move them now.

 

[GFXNow]

It seems that Sedo's Parking Name-Servers are based in Germany. I am sure once .US domains become pretty popular, some people are going to be upset because I would presume they would have to move their .US domains.

 

[iNod]

I have never heard them actually do anything about it? I'm sure NameDrive and Pool who both are based in Canada and have .us domains are awear of this rule if there is any? So why would they allow parking?

In which case if they didn't allow this you would be limited to US parking? Which is pretty slim? GoDaddy Parking is actually the only one I can think of lol..

There must be something else, maybe contact namedrive? I'm sure if NameDrive had too, they wouldn't mind having a US server for their .us domains?

That is the strangest CCTLD rule I have ever heard.. Canada rules are strict to allowing just Canadians to register.. But Wow.. Not allowing to host outside of US.. That is intense..

- Steve

 

[fonzie_007]

I've moved my domains to be parked at TrafficZ to comply with the requirements. Thanks for the post, the NS issue is news to me.

 

[Lasher]

I have never heard them actually do anything about it? I'm sure NameDrive and Pool who both are based in Canada and have .us domains are awear of this rule if there is any? So why would they allow parking?

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That is the strangest CCTLD rule I have ever heard.. Canada rules are strict to allowing just Canadians to register.. But Wow.. Not allowing to host outside of US.. That is intense..

- Steve

Just to reiterate, you can host wherever you want, it is the nameservers that must be located in the USA.

Most registrars will allow you to URL forward your domains to a parking company, or you can use a third party DNS server that is based in the US. I haven't studied it yet, but check out http://www.domainmanager.com, looks like it might address the need.

 

[irishmat]

Just to reiterate, you can host wherever you want, it is the nameservers that must be located in the USA.

Most registrars will allow you to URL forward your domains to a parking company, or you can use a third party DNS server that is based in the US. I haven't studied it yet, but check out http://www.domainmanager.com, looks like it might address the need.

i use domainmanager.com, its awesome, but i did that dns location check and it says canada

 

[fonzie_007]

Has anyone been able to confirm this whole nameserver mumbo jumbo from any Neustar document?

 

[Lasher]

It is covered in this document:

http://www.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf

Look under the section headed "information collected from registrants".

I emailed Namedrive about this yesterday to see if they had alternative nameservers I could use. No response.

 

[Constantin]

It is covered in this document:

http://www.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf

Look under the section headed "information collected from registrants".

I emailed Namedrive about this yesterday to see if they had alternative nameservers I could use. No response.

I can't find this obligation in that section, or anywhere else in the document.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

It is covered in this document:

http://www.us/policies/docs/ustld_nexus_requirements.pdf

Look under the section headed "information collected from registrants".

I emailed Namedrive about this yesterday to see if they had alternative nameservers I could use. No response.

Just to confirm the above, that information is "collected", but nowhere does it state (In that document) that it need be domiciled in any particular location.

-Allan

 

[Fundraiser]

I believe that policy was changed. There was a time when you could find the wording regarding that in the registration agreement. I am one of those odd people who actually reads them and checks for changes. Then, I believe the wording changed at the registry level but you could still find the wording in the registration agreement at individual registrars where they had not yet copied the new text. The pdf referenced above has a 2002 date on it even if it is on the site. I don't recall a time when registrars where enforcing the nameserver issue in collecting data so I suspect it was a policy that was thought to have merit and then the practical application of enforcement likely changed the thinking on that.