I know it's not very common these days but I am a big fan of the <locality>.<ST>.us domain structure as it was setup 25+ years ago. Having been in the ISP industry for more than half that time I have also dealt with 100's of these registrations although maybe only 25 in the last year. Guess I have been lucky since all of them were with previously delegated localities. So today I go to register a domain for a friend, in what I consider to be a large enough city to have at least been delegated in the past (Lowell, MA) but of course it is currently assigned to NeuStar. I send in the request anyways, figuring there will just be some additional paperwork. This is the response I receive. ..... The US Department of Commerce has specifically stated that only certain 4th level domains can be registered until further notice. The DoC has only allowed us to register fourth level domain names beginning with "borough", "ci." for city, "co." for county, "twp." or "town" for township, or "vil." for village. ..... I have had a couple back and forths with there support department. Waiting for a response coming during the work week. Does anyone know the actual status of the locality .us structure? Are they trying to push people to the .us pay domains? Isn't NeuStar up for renewal on their last 1 year extension? -- Alex Romanauskas ZipLink / GNAPs