Consumer Groups Decry 'Dot-US' Policies

JThaddeus writes: "The Washington Post reports that nonprofits are complaining about how NeuStar Inc. registered '.us' names on a first-come, first-served basis. 'While NeuStar did set aside some generic names, such as parks.us and kids.us, several nonprofit groups accused the company of making those decisions arbitrarily.' Some of these names have policy implications."

Dept Commerce Slipped Up

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It's too easy to err on the side of laissez faire on an issue that impacts the broader public like this.

The Dept of Commerce should have set down a few more guidelines to head off some of the criticism.

I think letting first claimants have priority, letting holders of related names have priority and people who pay money have priority are fine things, but not the only things.

Having a probationary period where potential names are publicly posted before they become more permanent would be helpful.

A Neustar website saying, for example, that an application for xenu.us was made tCoS on such and such a date for the amount of so many dollars and does anyone have a public comment on it would be helpful.

Thereafter, forever hold thy peace.

Re:Implications of .us distribution

[Jetson]

You're peeved that "thelindsays.org" couldn't be replaced with "thelindsays.us"? Whatever happened to Joe-server-in-a-closet getting "thelindsays.smalltown.state.us"? Is your family (or family business) so famous that it deserves to take national priority over all other potential lindsay family sites?
Good grief!