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Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by chickensong »

morpheuskafka wrote: post #82

This list of (supposedly 7388, didn't realize there even were that many?) of them can apparently now be registered online replacing the email method in the OP: https://localitymanagement.us/registrar/domain/delegatedzone... edit -- seems like the server has been "slashdotted" by this thread, I was finally able to get an account created but can't log in. doesn't seem very well coded anyway since I was apparently able…

Amazing slow site. If it does manage to find a valid domain, it doesn't show any contact info, nor registration form. Do I need to create an account and log in to see those?

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by cmdoptesc »

cogitosum wrote: post #98
cmdoptesc wrote: post #91

A few years back, I looked into registering a *.sf.ca.us locality domain and Sonic was the registrar back then. Now, I'm trying to recreate how I found that, and I can't. But if anyone is interested, try: hostmaster [at] 50N1C [dot] net (spell sonic correctly).

whois sf.ca.us

For some reason, I was using ICANN's lookup (lookup.icann.org) which came up empty. But yes, a simple whois from the commandline gave me the right contact. Thanks!

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by bragr »

EduardoBautista wrote: post #79
ZeWaka wrote: post #75

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's worth sitting down for an hour and filing a bunch of information redaction requests.

There are services that will submit this information to hundreds of sites for you. I used incogni and it seemed to have a positive result. https://incogni.com/

Or if you're in California: https://privacy.ca.gov/drop/

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by fullstop »

mikeyouse wrote: post #97
fullstop wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I used to have some domains registered with "theparsec.com", and would communicate with the owner, "ML", on occasion. It was great, he was responsive and helped me out if an order didn't go through for some reason. In 2022, their TLS certificates were off -- a subdomain used by a backend redirect process was no longer valid, so I contacted "ML" and they were unresponsive. I managed to get my domains to a new register…

The internet is weirdly good for creeping on people with this level of detail — https://nationalpublicdata.com/people/l/mark-lord/nv/reno/pd... Looks like you can reach him at mark84@gmail if you want to say ‘hi’.

I had found that person, and thought that it could be him. The site that I used did not provide an email address, though. Even the link that you provided shows other addresses than that to me.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

kraptv wrote: post #46

I have three locality domains, all with different registrars in Oregon. Two are with unique delegated locality domain registrars (think old school consultancies or ISPs that still exist) and one directly via localitymanagement.us (GoDaddy/USTLD). One of the registrars is from an out of state operator that has been dead for three years. I tracked his widow down and had a number of cordial conversations over about 18 m…

"RIP Jon."

In the 90s when learning about the internet I remember reading stuff written by "Jon Postel", a univeristy employee in California

Today, a curious student trying to learn about the internet would probably end up reading stuff written by "Big Tech" and/or academics who have financial relationships with these or other so-called "tech" companies

I remember Postel and one other person, perhaps at SRI, I forget her name, had a plan for these sort of hierarchical geographical domainnames. I recall it was _not_ commercial in nature. It "seemed like" Postel saw the internet, including DNS, as a public service. Needless to say, any such non-commercial vision was not realised

ICANN DNS became a money grab

If Postel had survived to today, would he have sold out like so many of his peers

I like to pretend he would not but I have no idea

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by righthand »

foresto wrote: post #94
yieldcrv wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

you can literally write anything in the whois though registrars have forwarded me ICANN notices about having info verification for 10 years and nothing happened nothingburger

Good luck in your gamble.

ICE getting 4th jobs enforcing WHOIS registration data soon.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

At bottom, the Cincinnati, Ohio domainname URL now points to a "Site Not Found" page on Dreamhost^1

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20260513154601if_/https://nguyen...

Here is the /locality.html page

https://web.archive.org/web/20141217060926if_/http://nguyen....

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by donmcronald »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #105
kraptv wrote: post #46

I have three locality domains, all with different registrars in Oregon. Two are with unique delegated locality domain registrars (think old school consultancies or ISPs that still exist) and one directly via localitymanagement.us (GoDaddy/USTLD). One of the registrars is from an out of state operator that has been dead for three years. I tracked his widow down and had a number of cordial conversations over about 18 m…

"RIP Jon." In the 90s when learning about the internet I remember reading stuff written by "Jon Postel", a univeristy employee in California Today, a curious student trying to learn about the internet would probably end up reading stuff written by "Big Tech" and/or academics who have financial relationships with these or other so-called "tech" companies I remember Postel and one other person, perhaps at SRI, I forget…

> ICANN DNS became a money grab

It’s too bad more people don’t understand how the domain industry is structured under ICANN. IMO, the registries are ICANN’s customers, the registrants are part of the product being sold, and the registrars are a liability shield.

One day there will be a grab for .com.

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by mikeyouse »

fullstop wrote: post #104
mikeyouse wrote: post #97

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The internet is weirdly good for creeping on people with this level of detail — https://nationalpublicdata.com/people/l/mark-lord/nv/reno/pd... Looks like you can reach him at mark84@gmail if you want to say ‘hi’.

I had found that person, and thought that it could be him. The site that I used did not provide an email address, though. Even the link that you provided shows other addresses than that to me.

Yeah it’s weird how they obfuscate some and surface different emails - this one seems to have both in normal and incognito mode: https://www.fastpeoplesearch.com/mark-lord_id_G-414558371175...

Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)

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Post by cormorant »

dextercd wrote: post #96
cormorant wrote: post #4

Some similarities to *. .name -- one of which is that the Public Suffix List thinks you're part of a single site with others you have no control over. Another is the weird registration procedure, but this one is weirder!

Apparently VeriSign plans to discontinue .name: https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/consensus-policies/rsep-2...

> and existing third level domain names will be terminated

Wow! The risks of being esoteric

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