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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 kstrauser »

kmoser wrote: post #171
tkzed49 wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

why not?

It's a vector for identity theft.

Birthdays are one of the absolute worst kept secrets on the Internet. There are entire sites that blab that information to anyone who asks.

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

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

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…

I believe the document I'm thinking of may have been RFC 1480

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1480.txt

If so, the other person was Ann W Cooper

AFAIK Cooper was never at SRI, but Postel was at one time

Putting aside the inaccurate memory, the point I wish to make as an ordinary computer user reading about the internet is that Postel wrote about the internet as a _public resource_. Check out the tone of this random Postel RFC, for example

https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1591.txt

Postel received a PhD in Computer Science in 1974 from UCLA and, apparently, he was a _two-finger typist_ who preferred handwritten slides over PowerPoint and used monochrome logos instead of color (I find this interesting; I'm not suggesting anyone else would)

Joyce K Reynolds, who co-authored some of the most important RFCs with Postel on protocols, was a social sciences major (another factoid I find interesting)

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

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Post by dawnerd »

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…

I tried to go through that site earlier today but they wanted a notarized letter from the city gov which, yeah, that's not going to happen.

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

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Post by CalRobert »

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.

It’s a protection racket too. When they first launched generic tld’s, donuts(a shady registry) had a product that didn’t allow domain registration but -did- block registration of a domain across all tlds in case you didn’t want to pay for company-name.[200+ tlds]

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

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Post by tuwtuwtuwtuw »

yieldcrv wrote: post #143
rootusrootus wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can get some of the major sources to remove you with a service like Optery [0]. Costs a few bucks, but if you let them work at it a few months you can drop the subscription and the effects will linger for a while before you start finding yourself on public databases again. I used it myself and I have trouble finding information about myself, even with my inside knowledge. If someone is determined enough you proba…

I just can't get myself to pay for this problem that's ultimately a failure of the government and relies on another corporation behaving with my data fortunately I'm a California resident so looks like that government has passed a solution that's free, thanks for sharing that guys

Here in sweden, personal data such as name, address, income, birth date, personal number, car ownership, etc. is public by design.

I find it interesting how the view on this differs depending on country and what people are used to.

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

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Post by vineyardmike »

cmdoptesc wrote: post #100
kuanbutts wrote: post #44

Anyone know why some larger cities are not listed? For example, I am noticing that Oakland, CA is missing. This would have been a major city in 1992 when the list was created as well.

That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us. I checked www.whois.us and oakland.ca.us is administered by locality-support [at] about [dot] us Try sending them an email?

Any idea who the current SF registrar is?
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