Tag Archives: .us

Sun 10th January 2016
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.XYZ Blows Past .US that Had a 28 Year Head Start - This week the new gTLD .XYZ past .US, the ccTLD of the United States, in the total number of domain registrations. According to RegistrarStats.com the number of .XYZ registration is 1,726,541 compared to .US which has 1,670.478. Keep in mind that .US, which is the country code for the United States, has been in operation for 30 years, launching on February 15, 1985. .XYZ launched on June 2, 2014. .US had basically a 28 1/2 year head start on .XYZ and now finds itself some 60,000 domain names behind ... read more ...
Mon 15th June 2015
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Neustar's Sean Kaine on .US, .Co, new TLDs and ICANN – DNW Podcast #37 - What’s the future of .US? What effect are new TLDs having on legacy domains? Find out in this podcast. Neustar has lots of experience with non-.com domains. It operates the registry for .co, .us and .biz, and is also the back end registry provider for a lot of new TLDs. On this episode, Neustar VP of Registry Sean Kaine talks about these top level domains and how he sees the internet naming landscape changing in the coming years. What’s the future of .US? Why is .Co still growing in the face ... read more ...
Tue 21st April 2015
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Virtual .US Town Hall assembly takes place Wednesday - .US owners should tune in and ask questions at online event tomorrow. Neustar, the registry that runs the .US country code domain name for the United States, is holding a .US Public Stakeholder Town Hall tomorrow, April 22. The virtual town hall takes place from 1-3 PM ET and registration is required. The usTLD Stakeholder Council, which was organized last year, is planning the event. There are a few topics on the agenda, but there will also be an open floor for people to ask questions. As the owner ... read more ...
Sun 1st February 2015
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Is This The Domain With The Longest Registration Date? SMITHSONIAN.US Expires 2102 - Here is new one on me. A domain name that doesn’t expire until the next century. The domain name is Smithsonian.us and it is as you would expect owned by the Smithsonian Institution of Washington. The domain is not registered through a registrar, but instead is still showing as being registered through NeuStar the company that operates the .US registry under license of the United States Government. I didn’t know that a domain name could be registered without a domain name registrar, but that ... read more ...
Sun 27th July 2014
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Actress Blake Lively Launches New Lifestyle Brand on a .US - Actress Blake Lively launched her new lifestyle website on a .US rather than say going the Blake.Luxury route or Lively.social. The Gossip Girl star is going with the name Preserve.Us. The Huffington Post covered the launch and the feedback from all over the Twitterverse, Blake Lively’s new lifestyle brand Preserve launched this week and it’s fair to say that the Internet felt every emotion possible about the star’s new venture. On Tuesday, the actress and style icon debuted her lifestyle-driven ... read more ...
Mon 30th June 2014
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Why Is Neustar Allowing Nicaragua To Use A .US Doman for Their Offical Visitor Site? - I saw a full page ad in a travel magazine a few weeks ago for the website VisitNicaragua.us. It was a very nice full color ad which promoted the country as a great tourist destination. The domain name is registered to the Nicaraguan Tourism Board and whose registered address on the whois records is in Nicaragua My first thought that it is stupid domain for the official travel site of a country to use domain name in  the ccTLD of other country. After all .US is the ccTLD for the United States and ... read more ...
Sun 18th May 2014
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Flashback: If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? - Four years ago Michael asked, If A .US Domain At Best Is Only Worth 1% of a .Com and 25% Of A .CA Why Bother? I’m sure this will piss off a whole group of folks who invest in .US domains, but looking through the Snapnames.com .US domain auction closing tomorrow , July 8th at 3:15pm, I couldn’t help but notice that Slots.Us is at auction with a reserve of $58,830 or roughly 1% of what the .com just sold for, or just over 25% of what Slots.ca just sold for. Candy.US is another domain for sale in ... read more ...
Wed 5th March 2014
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US Gives NeuStar New Contract To Run .US Domain Extention For Up To 5 Years - The Department of Commerce has re-awarded the contract to operate the .US domain extensions for three years with two additional one-year extension options to Neustar Inc. (NYSE:NSR). The .US Top Level Domain (TLD), is the official country code domain of the United States (ccTLD) “Neustar has successfully administered this critical domain since 2001, when the Department of Commerce first selected the company to build and manage the new domain.” “The .US domain represents Main Street America, ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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NameJet.com Holding the 1st Ever .US Domain Name Auction - For the  very first time, NameJet is offering .US domains on our auction platform. “These exclusive domains are priced to sell at no or low reserves, between now and 10/24/2013.” advertisements.us bed.us bras.us clip.us connection.us desserts.us device.us disk.us easter.us employee.us equity.us fixed.us folders.us hearts.us humanresources.us increase.us key.us keyboard.us keys.us kings.us majors.us messages.us newsletters.us occupations.us pedicure.us pensionplans.us planners.us practice.us refund.us regards.us retirements.us shower.us skills.us spend.us stuff.us teen.us transfer.us vaccine.us wealthy.us Google+Michael ... read more ...
Thu 31st January 2013
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US Government Opens Comment Period On .US ccTLD: Contract Expires On 8/31 - The United States Department of Commerce’s (Department) National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) which administers the contract for the country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for the United States, “.US” (usTLD) has opened up the comment period on the contract to run the .US extension. The current contract expires on August 31, 2013. Neustar, Inc (NSR) operates the .US extension under the current contract. “Currently, the usTLD is comprised of approximately 1,786,738 ... read more ...
Wed 1st September 2010
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Can A Senate Candidate Be A Game Changer For The Whole .US Extension? JoeMiller.US - If you’re a .US domain investor you might want to pay close attention to the Campaign of Joe Miller who is running for Senator from Alaska. Miller is a Tea Party candidate who has a slight lead in the race for the Republican Primary for Senator pending the counting of absentee voters. Why should you care about Mr. Miller’s campaign if your a .US investor? Because Mr. Miller is using a .US domain for his campaign rather than a .Com. Not only is he using a .US for his campaign, but he is prominently ... read more ...
Thu 8th July 2010
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Moniker Auction Results: 30 .Us Domain Name Sell - US country code auction sells over $40,000 worth of domain names. [Updated: the official tally is 30 domains sold. I originally reported 29 domains sold.] Moniker’s .us domain name auction sold 29 30 of 86 domain names, or 35%. That’s a much stronger showing than recent online auctions held by the company. The key to success was a lot of good keyword domain names with low reserves. Having them at prices most people can afford helped, too. In total over $40,000 ... read more ...
Wed 6th January 2010
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Champagne.us: Interesting Use of .US Domain Name - Champagne Bureau uses .us domain for Champagne petition call-to-action. An ad on the back of this week’s The New Yorker includes an interesting use of a .us domain name: Champagne.us. The ad is a call to action to sign a petition asking congress to crack down on companies labeling sparkling wine as “Champagne” when it isn’t from the Champagne region of France. There’s a legal loophole that allows American U.S. sparkling wine producers to label their wines ... read more ...
Wed 11th June 2008
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GoDaddy Playing Hardball with NeuStar? - Pricing at GoDaddy for NeuStar’s .us and .biz domains is oddly high. In February I wrote about GoDaddy’s price increase for .biz domain names. The registrar was charging $14.99 for .biz domain names, even though its wholesale cost at the registry is about the same as .com domain names (which GoDaddy sells for $9.99). It appeared that GoDaddy was just trying to make some extra profit. But a couple weeks ago a friend pointed out that I may have missed the boat ... read more ...