Where did it all go wrong?

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Originally Posted by Alphamale

when was .US created? was it early on in the internet's timeline? when you say .US was restrictive, you mean it was reserved for US companies only or was it too expensive an extension?

.us started taking registrations on or about April 18,2002
The .us Registry is reserving diffrent variations of us cities,counties,senator names,numbers and others

A list of reserved .us domains is here:http://www.nic.us/registrars/

[Drewbert]

They started taking OPEN registrations from that date.

Prior to that it was all resticted to subdomains build on a <yourname>.<locale>.<state>.us structure.

Which was of course unworkable because each reg had to be manually approved.

Which is why .com is king :^)