[10028] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: usdns.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig A. Huegen)
Wed Jun 11 16:21:44 1997
Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 13:09:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen@quadrunner.com>
To: Eric Kozowski <kozowski@structured.net>
cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199706111931.MAA12085@teufel.structured.net.>
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eric Kozowski wrote:
==>I just received a fishy call from a guy a usdns.org. Bottom line is they want
==>to bill for .US domain registrations and give us a kickback for the .US
==>subdomains that we host.
==>
==>What do any of you know about this group?
Well, since the two organizations are completely different (.us TLD is
hosted by IANA/ISI), I'd say tell them to stuff it and cc:
us-domain@isi.edu.
chuegen@chuegen-sun:7:~>whois us-dom | more
United States of America top-level domain (US-DOM)
Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
c/o
University of Southern California
Information Sciences Institute
4676 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Domain Name: US
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
United States Domain Registrar (USDR) us-domain@ISI.EDU
(310) 822-1511
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chuegen@chuegen-sun:8:~>whois usdns.org
[rs.internic.net]
Name Consortium, Inc. (USDNS3-DOM)
417 E. Sheridan St. Suite 127
Dania, FL 33004
US
Domain Name: USDNS.ORG
Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
Brownley, Oprah Basil (OBB2) oprah@USDNS.COM
954 922-1899 (FAX) 954 922-1652
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