[40467] in North American Network Operators' Group
NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (up@3.am)
Thu Aug 9 20:41:25 2001
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2001 20:40:44 -0400 (EDT)
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To: nanog@merit.edu
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I thought this might be of interest:
The whois for .us had been working a few weeks ago, but hadn't been since
then. I dropped an email to action@isi.edu (who had been hosting the
whois server until a few weeks ago) and cc'd usdomreg@nic.us and got the
following responses:
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 12:21:22 -0700
From: IPC Computing Services <action@ISI.EDU>
To: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net>
Cc: action@ISI.EDU, action-team@ISI.EDU
Subject: Re: {2001.08.445} .us TLD whois not in DNS
> http://www.nic.us/register/whois.html
>
> Instructs one to use whois.isi.edu
>
> for whois queries on the .us TLD. It's not in DNS:
>
> [richard namedb james]$ traceroute whois.isi.edu
> traceroute: unknown host whois.isi.edu
>
> Could you please look into this and let me know if either the website
> is wrong or this will be fixed?
At the request of the US Department of Commerce, USC/ISI transitioned
all support for the US Domain to Verisign at the end of 2000. We
appologize that the Verisign supported web site still points to
USC/ISI resources but we have no control over their publication of
data.
IPC Computing Services
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31 hours later from the new registrar (Verisign):
Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2001 19:27:10 -0400
From: US domreg <usdomreg@nic.us>
To: James Smallacombe <james@pil.net>
Cc: usreply@nic.us
Subject: Re: .us TLD whois not in DNS
Dear James,
Thank you for contacting the US Domain Registry.
The whois database was run by ISI until recently. The whois server has
now
been taken offline and so there is no .us whois server currently. We are
currently working on a replacement but there is no estimate on how long
that
will take. In the meantime, if there are specific domains you wish to
have
information on, please email them to us and we will manually find the
information for you.
Regards,
US Domain Registry
www.nic.us
usdomreg@nic.us
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ok, so .us isn't very widely used, but why then, did the DOC give it to
Verisign?
James Smallacombe PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
up@3.am http://3.am
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