[MacosNerd]

I see that network solutions is now advertising .us.com

I haven't heard about these, and they seem kind of lame.

Its almost like they're like a sub-domain type of setup. Not sure of regular web hosts will handle these or you need to go through network solutions for everything.

To set the record straight I'm not interested in them, but I am curious to hear what others here think.

[mduell]

Lame... they're just selling subdomains.

[PB2K]

i always hated the british emailaddresses, last time i got something which was like john.doe-surname@student.company.co.uk

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

I see that network solutions is now advertising .us.com

I haven't heard about these, and they seem kind of lame.

Its almost like they're like a sub-domain type of setup. Not sure of regular web hosts will handle these or you need to go through network solutions for everything.

To set the record straight I'm not interested in them, but I am curious to hear what others here think.

Do you mean a .us? You can have anything want before the .com. However, after receiving "bills" from Network Solutions in an attempt to scam me out of my domain name, I wouldn't put it past those criminals to actually own us.com and try and sell subdomains.

.us is the country code domain. Most countries have a country code domain. If you're in the k-12 sector, your official domain will end with the state and country code, aka: www. yourschool.k12.ca.us

[Big Mac]

That's very lame.

[MacosNerd]

Originally Posted by olePigeon 

Do you mean a .us?

No, I mean a .us.com and its is lame. Not a country code, but a sub-domain of .com.

that is macosnerd.us.com domain instead of macosnerd.com. Because presumably I wanted macosnerd.com but it was taken and network solutions thinks I'd be willing to spend way too much money on a macosnerd.us.com domain when I could come up with something else and buy it from godaddy.

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by MacosNerd 

No, I mean a .us.com and its is lame. Not a country code, but a sub-domain of .com.

that is macosnerd.us.com domain instead of macosnerd.com. Because presumably I wanted macosnerd.com but it was taken and network solutions thinks I'd be willing to spend way too much money on a macosnerd.us.com domain when I could come up with something else and buy it from godaddy.

I hate Network Solutions more than Microsoft.

[MacosNerd]

I wouldn't go that far. With network solutions the market place will decide its fate.
godaddy registrar 9.99 for a .com though if you search the net, you can find coupons (I know they send me a ton each week).

network solutions 34.99 for a one year registration.

I don't know too many business that can over charge and deliver so little and stay in business. This is probably why the company has been sold a number of times. They're unable to attract new business, as well as godaddy.

[Big Mac]

It's amazing they still have so many domain names though. NetSol is absolutely awful.

[Andrew Stephens]

Stop me if I'm wrong here but .com isn't actually supposed to be the domain for the US is it. Just like .co.uk in the UK American addresses "should" end .co (country).us (er united states), however .com has become the US default because of American hegemony over the internet in the formative years.

[freudling]

My god, more domain crap. Will it ever end. What a horrible world we live in. People will create any stupid market or offshot existing ones to make a dollar. We keep inflating markets and fabricating them, it is becoming impossible to keep up with them, they just explode into infitesimal bits, and hit each and everyone of us in the face.

Screw .us.com. The big secret is unless you have one of the very few effective domains out there, nobody will type it into the address bar. People run local searches via google. If your business name depends on it, and .us.com is the only thing, well, you should make an offer to the jerk who bought your .com name.

[red rocket]

Originally Posted by Andrew Stephens

Stop me if I'm wrong here but .com isn't actually supposed to be the domain for the US is it. Just like .co.uk in the UK American addresses "should" end .co (country).us (er united states), however .com has become the US default because of American hegemony over the internet in the formative years.

I'm sure there must have been some bureaucrat at some time who had this dream about every country using its own version of name.co/gov/org/ac.country_code, but it was never going to catch on, in my opinion. Let's face it, apart from the UK and Japan, nobody uses the format, probably because it's just too bloody awkward.

I read something a few years ago about the Germans bragging how they had the biggest national presence on the web, because apparently there were more people using the .de suffix than .us. Ridiculous, but it illustrates the point.

Those pushing for the adoption of nationalist domain name endings are ignoring globalised market realities, and the insertion of business model specifications in the form of prior or posterior com.x/org.x/etc.x seems like a misguided afterthought on the part of some ratiofascist to impose compartmentalised Borg‑style order on an organism that has evolved along the opposite path, and doesn't want or need it.

The way it seems to me, there should either be nothing but country identifiers at the end of web addresses, or else nothing but .com/.net/.org/.ac. All these hybrid versions are rubbish.

[turtle777]

Is fu<k.you-us.com still avaliable ?

-t

[Mithras]

Hey, don't forget .gov and .edu. They have their place.
But the real rubbish are these johnny-come-latelys like .aero, .coop, .museum, .biz, .info, and the completely ridiculous .travel, .jobs, and such.

Also, toys.Я.us.com would be kinda cool.

[PB2K]

Originally Posted by turtle777 

Is fu<k.you-us.com still avaliable ?

-t

why dont you just try it

-t

[olePigeon]

Originally Posted by Mithras 

Hey, don't forget .gov and .edu. They have their place.
But the real rubbish are these johnny-come-latelys like .aero, .coop, .museum, .biz, .info, and the completely ridiculous .travel, .jobs, and such.

Also, toys.Я.us.com would be kinda cool.

What's wrong with jobs.company.com or museum.organization.org

Nope, some dumbass wants to go with www.company.jobs or www.organization.meseum

And what MORON came up with .mobi for mobile phone websites? First of all, it's FOUR letters, one longer than a normal TLD, and second... the letters aren't even close to each other on the damn keypad. It's actually harder to type than .com, .net, or .org.

[MacosNerd]

Originally Posted by Mithras 

Hey, don't forget .gov and .edu. They have their place.
But the real rubbish are these johnny-come-latelys like .aero, .coop, .museum, .biz, .info, and the completely ridiculous .travel, .jobs, and such.

Also, toys.Я.us.com would be kinda cool.

I have no problem with them, it gives companies and people the opportunity to get a domain name they like. Most if not all .com/.net/.org domain names have all been taken up, so opening up more TLDs makes sense.