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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 fullstop »

mikeyouse wrote: post #109
fullstop wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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...

It's probably an attempt to maximize search hits. I wonder if they would always be provided if your user-agent matched google's webcrawler UA.

The last email address in your link, the sbcglobal one, is for someone else entirely. She's involved in the church in Springfield, IL. I assume that she got tied in by Mark's surname.

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

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Post by cormorant »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #107

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....

It still (again?) loads for me.

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

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Post by Barbing »

donmcronald wrote: post #108
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

Fun fact (you probably remember), you used to report phishing sites with one simple email and they would actually be taken down.

These days I get the feeling a lot of the registrars are essentially/effectively in on it (at least by inaction). A well-run ICANN feels needed, who can track takedown compliance.

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

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Post by Barbing »

bragr wrote: post #103
EduardoBautista wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

Thank you! How’d you find out about this?

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 did some more creeping, but this is probably the end for me if he doesn't get back to my email. He was involved with real estate, but their realty webpage is offline and the last record in the Internet Archive is from 2018. That's the last time I heard from him as well. My original comment was incorrect -- that's the last time I interacted with his service.

I wonder if the whole thing was on auto-pilot until things eventually broke.

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

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Post by TMWNN »

EvanAnderson wrote: post #43
kiddico wrote: post #8

Seeing the *.k12.oh.us in the delegated subdomains brought me back to highschool. When I was little I always wondered why the city name was before k12. Didn't know it was structured like that everywhere.

I managed a couple ".k12.oh.us" domains back in the day. The employees hated the domain in their email addresses, but I found it very logical. I saw all kinds screwed-up addresses in bounce messages forwarded to my company address when "can't email people in the District" tickets got sent my way (a lot of "districtname.oh.k12.us", etc). I guess it wasn't so simple for "normies". One of the schools ended up using a ".…

.gov should never have been expanded to outside the US federal government.

(.com should never have been expanded to outside US-headquartered companies, either.)

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

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Post by aquir »

hnlmorg wrote: post #62
aquir wrote: post #28

I wish there would be something like this in the UK but with county instead of state. E.g. swindon.wiltshire.uk or sheffield.southyorkshire.uk

Buy the domain names then and offer those services. The US state ones are just sub-domains. city.state.us isn’t a TLD.

someone has already registered all county.uk domains in 2019 :(

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

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Post by tiffanyh »

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…

Super interesting.

Naive question, what do you use the locality domain for?

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

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Post by icedchai »

donmcronald wrote: post #108
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

"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.

I still remember when they started charging for domains. Until late 1995, they were free.
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