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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)

#22
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.

School districts are often supersets of municipalities.

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

#23
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.

School districts are often supersets of municipalities.

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

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

#24
post #13

I want to set one up now and use it to call out the city board members taking kickbacks from flock.

This is probably not the kind of approach to taking out new domain names you should encourage. A lot of other causes might think this is their way to set up an "official" representation of their strongly held political beliefs, and I think you can imagine where that might go with some groups.

"Don't use your free speech because other people might use theirs in ways you don't like"

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

#25
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.

mayo.k12.sc.us was my high school. It seems a shame they're not still using it.

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

#27
post #21
post #13

I want to set one up now and use it to call out the city board members taking kickbacks from flock.

Why would city board members care what your domain name is?

Oh they probably don't. But it might annoy them slightly if the foia docs were hosted there.
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