RE: NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this

[<up () 3 am>]

I thought the .us whois not working was fairly recent news...at least it
worked a few weeks ago.

On Thu, 9 Aug 2001, Roeland Meyer wrote:

> Duh! You haven't been keeping up. ICANN/DNSO/GA knew about this *months*
> ago. In fact, there is an RFP out for managing US. There's problems with the
> contract though, so there aren't many bidders. US is a royal mess that many
> don't want to touch.
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: up () 3 am [mailto:up () 3 am]
> > Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 5:41 PM
> > To: nanog () merit edu
> > Subject: NetSol takes over .us TLD and does this
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 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
> >
> > -------
> > 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
> >
> > ==============================================================
> > =================
> >
> >
> > 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                                                  
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James Smallacombe                     PlantageNet, Inc. CEO and Janitor
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