Memories of .us

kraptv 25 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I love the old interent. I'll confess I have three locality domains and they are wonderful.

I'll confess I have successfully registered a locality domain this year (2025) and it was a little bit fun to go through the weird hoops to get this new domain registered.

I'm also working on/helping out a registrar whose owned died and his widow is resolving what to do with the non-profit.

A related quaint couple of blogs[1][2] if you're feeling nostalgic and motivated to register your own:

[1] https://sleepless.seattle.wa.us/2022-07-01-110449/

[2] http://nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us/locality.html

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jjmarr an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Subdivided geographic TLDs are still common in Ontario govts, such as gov.on.ca [1] and tdsb.on.ca for Toronto schools.[2] Both are still in common use.

[1] https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3Agov.on.ca&r=ca&sh=lUDz_I8Uq...

[2] https://kagi.com/search?q=site%3ATDSB.on.ca&r=ca&sh=jysEnEgZ...

	▲	QuantumNomad_ 27 minutes ago \| parent \| next [-]
		In Norway we have kommune.no for municipalities. For example: - Oslo https://www.oslo.kommune.no/ the largest municipality in terms of population, and home of Oslo the capital of Norway - Utsira http://www.utsira.kommune.no/ the smallest municipality in terms of population with just 217 people per 2025. - Nordkapp https://www.nordkapp.kommune.no/ home of the famous Nordkapp (North Cape) And there is vgs.no for High Schools. For example: - Elvebakken videregående skole https://elvebakken.vgs.no/ - Nydalen videregående skole https://nydalen.vgs.no/ - Foss videregående skole https://foss.vgs.no/ These two and some others are called category domains and are managed by Norid, who also run the .no registry as a whole. https://www.norid.no/en/om-domenenavn/regelverk-for-no/#4.-A...
	▲	throw0101c an hour ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		For dot-ca, it (used to be) historically mandated that you had to use the 'closest' geographic locale for your domain, which is how we got https://transit.toronto.on.ca (which now goes to https://transittoronto.ca). At some point CIRA (the non-profit that now runs .ca) stopped making that a requirement. * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ca There are still rules on who gets priority on names: toronto.ca is the government but toronto.com is a news organization; ditto for canada.ca and canada.com; ontario.ca versus ontario.com; etc. The three/four-level domains are now generally grandfathered.