Who's the hostmaster for .fl.us?
This seems much harder to find out than I would have expected. RFC 1480 is, sadly, dated, and it's really hard to google for ".fl.us" usably. And www.fl.us goes nowhere. Off-list is fine; I don't expect this is a high-interest question. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274
This seems much harder to find out than I would have expected.
RFC 1480 is, sadly, dated, and it's really hard to google for ".fl.us" usably. And www.fl.us goes nowhere.
Off-list is fine; I don't expect this is a high-interest question.
Neustar has been successful in getting RFC1480-style domain names effectively discontinued as of maybe a decade ago (we're responsible for mil.wi.us here) and so any locality stuff under .fl.us is probably legacy stuff. They'd much rather sell people foo.us ... Anyways, whois information is available via www.nic.us which points at www.whois.us, but if your question is about the ".fl.us" zone itself, that's almost certainly handled directly by Neustar. www.whois.us appears to be functional, or, at least, showed me current data for our zones. ... JG -- Joe Greco - sol.net Network Services - Milwaukee, WI - http://www.sol.net "We call it the 'one bite at the apple' rule. Give me one chance [and] then I won't contact you again." - Direct Marketing Ass'n position on e-mail spam(CNN) With 24 million small businesses in the US alone, that's way too many apples.
Neustar has been successful in getting RFC1480-style domain names effectively discontinued as of maybe a decade ago (we're responsible for mil.wi.us here) and so any locality stuff under .fl.us is probably legacy stuff. They'd much rather sell people foo.us ...
If you're wondering about something in k12.fl.us, do a WHOIS and you'll find the Florida Dep't of Education. For other fl.us names, do a WHOIS on the name, and you'll find out what Neustar's got. I have a few <place>.ny.us delegations, but there's no new ones. There was a big kerfuffle in which Neustar demanded in the agreement that subregistries provide unlimited indemnification for their legal costs. It turned out that you could just cross out that clause and Neustar would accept it, but that news was not widely disseminated and many local registries just gave up. The .us zone still has some very crufty legacy stuff. The name iecc.cambridge.ma.us is still there as a CNAME, left over from something I registered in about 1991. There's no WHOIS for it, Neustar probably has no idea that I was the original registrant, and I have no idea how I'd even ask them to get rid of it. It's a dandy spamtrap, though. R's, John
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