Re: Free Non-Commercial Domain Names for U.S. Citizens.

[william@dso.net (William X. Walsh)]

Not true Michael.

ISI has been permiting .us local registries to charge a "reasonable
fee" for registrations for quite some time now.

In some cities this "reasonable fee" is as high as $25/yr, and in
others they are not charging at all.  But by and large more and more
are charing anywhere from $10 to $25/yr.



On Wed, 28 Apr 1999 16:52:16 -0400, Michael Sondow <msondow@iciiu.org>
wrote:

>FYI, anyone who lives in the U.S. and is interested in participating
>as a voting member of the Non-Commercial Domain Name Holders
>Constituency of the DNSO but doesn't have a non-commercial domain
>name, may acquire one without charge by registering their name (or
>anything else) as a fourth-level subdomain in the .US system, in the
>form yourname.yourregion.yourstate.us. For example, the ICIIU is
>registered as iciiu.queens.ny.us.
>
>In order to do this, all you have to do is contact the
>registry/registrar for your regional or 3rd-level subdomain, which
>you can get from the table of subdomains and their email addresses
>at http://www.isi.edu/in-notes/us-domain-delegated.txt.
>
>There should be no charge for the domain registration. If you have
>any trouble, complain to ISI (www.isi.edu), or to Network Solutions,
>Inc. (more accessible than ISI), which pays ISI for administering
>.US.
>
>Having the subdomain in .US permits you to have DNS and a website
>for it just like any SLD under the gTLDs. It also carries the bonus
>of giving you a voice in the current reorganization of the .US TLD.


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