That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us.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?
That indicates that approval has been rolled up into GoDaddy at this point, and you’ll have to get a notarized letter from the city for them to issue you a domain.
Just saw your other comment here. That's a bummer. I've been lucky to have never dealt with GoDaddy.
That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us.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?
Yup! Sonic.net
`whois sf.ca.us` will give you the email of the registrar (thanks cogitosum).
Maybe that’s only for registering primary domains and not subdomains?
Maybe that’s only for registering primary domains and not subdomains? That is true and would explain my confusion on this matter if they have some list of apex domains they are dynamically creating sub-domains for. Honestly if this is the case I would avoid participating in this. This puts the control of the domain (sub-domain) in their hands for your city. Cities and states can already use sub-domains of their count…
It definitely doesn’t seem like a very stable initiative. Benign neglect for a project nobody in government thought enough about to bother cancelling when they didn’t want to do it anymore.
I wonder how reliable this is. Will AWS lightsail continue to work indefinitely for free? What if AWS changes the system in some way? What if the person hosting my locality becomes unavailable?
I suppose you can use any nameserver you like, the only problem is it’ll be a PITA to change it.
(I’ve recently registered a .bt domain by filling out a PDF form, hand-signing it, scanning and sending to a Bhutan Telecom admin. Changing a nameserver would probably be a similar procedure now, and involves a one-time fee if I recall correctly.)
I set up an account on www.localitymanagement.us and requested first.city.state.us and last.city.state.us. I attempted to login today and got a message that my account was suspended.
This is the correct answer. From RFC 1386, Section 3.3.1: "Public schools are usually organized by districts which can be larger or smaller than a city or county." https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1386#page-12
What a wierd phrasing. It reads to me like it excludes the possibility of it being the same.
It's said this way because the default assumption is that a school district extends only to city or county lines. They can be larger or smaller, though.
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.
The issue is the spam
All of our personal identification data is available, not by design, but it is available
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.)
I'm actually in favor of it, because it makes it much more clear what is a government address, versus what is a private address in the US. But .gov should have been broken up into .state.gov address so you could very easily guess the address of your local governments website. Like why is the site for Los Angeles lacity.gov and not losangeles.ca.gov? Why is the Ohio secretary of state not sos.oh.gov? These should all be well known address, so if I move to a new state, I can just go to the web site, and do whatever registration I need to without having to hunt for these addresses.
Seeing the list of contacts for delegated subdomains reminds me of a time when there were a lot more local ISP's. Inreach.com for Stockton, lodinet (possibly an ISP?) for Lodi.. But the one that really shocked me was https://www.snowcrest.com/mysc/ - which seems to still be up and running?? I wonder if the login page for webmail (ISP-provided email was a thing! And even hosting space!) still works. https://web.archiv…
Interesting that they still have an old school webcam.