theparamount said:
Or you can simply just make up an address... its not like neustar polices it.
You can't be serious about giving that piece of bad advice (and in a public forum) to someone who is thinking about making a business transaction, no matter how small.
Each registrar has its specific rules, and you agree to abide by those rules when you electronically "sign" the contract during the domain purchase checkout procedure. Whether or not a particular registrar actively validates or periodically checks each and every domain is questionable. They may do spot checks, I am guessing on that. But be assured if any dispute arises with the name, that you will be on very weak footing by having a false registration.
With so many domain extensions available, why play around by intentionally breaking rules if you are in this as a real business? For those of us in the US, sure we'd all like to be able to own the .de, .co.uk, etc extension of many of our generics but why do that and risk it? There are so many legit places to invest your domain reg fee money and especially in good aftermarket names.
If however, the .US name or names you would like to secure are not for domaining only but something that will help your
existing business expand its market to US customers, then the previous advice given below about incorporating in the US seems to be the best course of action.
Others here might want to comment on the following option:
Find someone in the US who can legitimately register the name(s) you want. Draw up an agreement to lease use of the names from them in return for some sort of revenue share or other compensation. You may want to carefully read through the .US registration policy to see if that is allowed or disallowed.
Best of luck.
