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."

Implications of .us distribution

[lindsayt]

Despite all their statements, the .us distribution clearly favors big companies. The added bonus that the gov't has already claimed anything involving a municipality, state, county or region, makes it very difficult to get a good name. dot-us, which should have been a big deal for the US, has turned into a non-event. I was asked to bid on the .us version of my current domainname (thelindsays.org) about two months ago, and the name I'd really like, lindsay.us, was already taken more than a month before the public opening.

No thanks, I'd rather have a non-obvious .com or .org than a non-obvious .us.