a peek at their web page indicates they are *not* related to ISI. i am not aware of anything that would give them the right to charge for .us registration. sounds like a big scam to me.
On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eric Kozowski wrote:
I just received a fishy call from a guy a usdns.org. Bottom line is they want to bill for .US domain registrations and give us a kickback for the .US subdomains that we host.
I just received an US domain template from usdns.org for a 3rd level domain that we delegate for. So, I called the listed contact and asked him if the Name Consortium was charging him for the registration. He said they were charging him "something like $10". I let him know it was really free (he didn't know that) and pointed him to the ISI page. Hey ISI/IANA, you might want to take a look at these characters. -- Eric Kozowski VP Internet Services eric@structured.net Structured Network Systems, Inc. (800)390-5945 Support A Verio Affiliate (800)881-0962 Sales/Info http://www.structured.net/ PGP Key fingerprint = 0A E4 91 B8 BD CB 3E 95 42 12 04 4E 14 DF 86 76 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' -- Benjamin Franklin 1759