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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 Spooky23 »

nickswalker wrote: post #152

Unfortunately the author is correct that you’re pretty screwed if the locality is no longer delegated. I messaged GoDaddy to register one in Boston, they asked for a _notarized_ letter on the local governments letter head approving. No one within the Boston city government knew what their procedure would be, and those willing to say yes didn’t have a notary around. They ended up citing a state law indicating that no…

That law was a reaction to a Federal thing (through CISA i think) to migrate all governments to the .gov domain in the US in the name of security and branding.

They were pushing it hard when DNSSEC was being babbled about by cyber people.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

captn3m0 wrote: post #128
car wrote: post #125

In Germany it is possible to register an ENUM domain for a phone number. This provides a DNS mapping from the E164 number to DNS records, e.g. for IP phones, etc. Decentralized and under user control, no shitty silos like FaceTime, WhatsApp. ENUM stands for “Telephone Number Mapping.” It is essentially a bridge between the world of telecommunications and the Internet. With a single ENUM domain, you can combine all yo…

I saw this lets you do Fax over IP. Any other advantages or usecases?

Time travel.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

fragmede wrote: post #89
jumploops wrote: post #83

Just discovered that mission.sf.ca.us[0] already redirects to Noisebridge[1] Of the "hackers" to get there before me, I'm happy it's them! [0] http://mission.sf.ca.us [1] https://www.noisebridge.net

unfortunately, whomever set that up didn't do it right. http to mission.sf.ca.us works, but if you do https, it's broken. The cert isn't for that, and if you ignore that, then you get sent to http://netisland.net/

Too bad it's not https://penisland.net/

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

tialaramex wrote: post #14
thrill wrote: post #9

Aren’t there several states that have the same city name repeated within the state? I think there’d need to be a county delineator here too.

If you have hierarchical naming, which DNS does, then the problem of name clashes is always a problem for whoever sits above those names and they can resolve it however they like. If your state thought it was a good idea to have two cities named "Star City" that's on them to resolve however they like. Trial by endurance for the city mayor? Draw lots? Everybody in the state votes? Not my monkeys, not my circus.

Look-alike Unicode characters.

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

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Post by DonHopkins »

DrewADesign wrote: post #33
thrill wrote: post #9

Aren’t there several states that have the same city name repeated within the state? I think there’d need to be a county delineator here too.

The edge cases always make things so difficult: Manhattan: New York County Brooklyn: Kings County The Bronx: Bronx County Queens: Queens County Staten Island: Richmond County All New York City. Same municipality, 5 counties.

ny.ny.us

  New York City is a place so nice
  Everybody says it so they had to name it twice
  New York my happy love's you
  (I love you very much)
  I could not live without you
  So let's always keep in touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82f7BB6zNOc

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

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Post by KPGv2 »

foresto wrote: post #63

Having a domain under the .us TLD once seemed appealing to me for practical reasons: It's short, consistently inexpensive, and hasn't already sold the vast majority of its useful namespace to squatters. Unfortunately, it forbids WHOIS privacy services, which makes it a privacy and security hazard for personal domains. Pity, that.

People running WHOIS against kylesmith.com might discover that it's owned by someone named Kyle Smith.

I'll actually offer my take: domain names under the US TLD are a shared, public good, and no one should be allowed to anonymously own a shared, public good.

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

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Post by wowczarek »

car wrote: post #125

In Germany it is possible to register an ENUM domain for a phone number. This provides a DNS mapping from the E164 number to DNS records, e.g. for IP phones, etc. Decentralized and under user control, no shitty silos like FaceTime, WhatsApp. ENUM stands for “Telephone Number Mapping.” It is essentially a bridge between the world of telecommunications and the Internet. With a single ENUM domain, you can combine all yo…

Sadly ENUM is dead or buried or both for many countries.

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

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Post by wowczarek »

*.eu.org, was (is) an early attempt at something similar this side of the pond, starting in the early 2000s, also free although community managed, but still surviving. Used to be a good way to get a free "proper" domain delegation rather than a shitty iframe alias soon to become ad-ridden, or banner-ridden in those days should I say. Good for 1337 IPv6 hostnames for IRC as well.

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

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Post by fred_is_fred »

russellbeattie wrote: post #126
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…

> "Slashdotted" Here's a nickel, kid. Get yourself a better computer.

Preferably a beowulf cluster of them.
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