> 5. Date Operational......: You can use your birth date here.
Yikes, no!
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)
#32Will WHOIS requests leak my address? Nope. Even though you must supply your address in the registration form, a WHOIS request for your locality domain will only show information about the registrar. Perhaps I am misunderstanding their statement but unless something recently changed this is not true. The .US TLD does not permit whois privacy services. The full legal name and address of the registrant will be shown in…
Maybe that’s only for registering primary domains and not subdomains?
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#33Aren’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.
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#34Will WHOIS requests leak my address? Nope. Even though you must supply your address in the registration form, a WHOIS request for your locality domain will only show information about the registrar. Perhaps I am misunderstanding their statement but unless something recently changed this is not true. The .US TLD does not permit whois privacy services. The full legal name and address of the registrant will be shown in…
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 countries .gov domain structure which I realize is full of its own issues but that's another topic all together. Cities can also get citystate.gov in some states but I don't know how that process works.
This project would likely be shut down the first time someone complains to their government about one of the sites.
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#35> FL HOTDOG.MIAMI.FL.US. arodriguez@houseit.com I'm very confused by this entry. There isn't even a miami subdomain, just a Dade subdomain.
Delegation can happen at a dot, but does have to happen at each dot. The current referral sequence is:
root-servers.net -> cctld.us -> localitymanagement.us -> miami.fl.us
And it ends there with an NXDOMAIN. Unsurprisingly, a list archived in 2009[1] is no longer accurate. If I'm reading this Internet Monthly Report[2] correctly, that domain came into existence in October 1998.
[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090909141302/http://neustar.us...
[2]: https://www.iana.org/archive/internet-monthly-reports/1998/i...
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#36Seeing 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…
Here in the Boston area, the first commercial ISP https://www.theworld.com/ appears to still be up and running, and is similarly frozen in time.
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#37Some similarities to *. .name -- one of which is that the Public Suffix List thinks you're part of a single site with others you have no control over. Another is the weird registration procedure, but this one is weirder!
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Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#38Seeing 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.
Our school and town dropped all the .mi.us domains and they have their own domains now, why would they do that? I know it used to be k12 too.
They nearly all did that because the average person never figured out how the DNS hierarchy worked, and many of them never even got comfortable with the idea of having more than one dot in a domain (with the exception of a “www.” prefix). So it was easier for each district to just make up a random .com or .org.
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#39Wonder if there is an equivalent to Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch
Re: Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)
#40Aren’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.
There's also the edge case of the (unofficial) 6th borough of NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_borough