On Thu, 18 Dec 2025, Wes Hardaker wrote:
Yeah, and that's the key: what happens to all the registrants [not quite the right word here, but still works] with existing domains. Do they get any form of assurance they can continue using the domain, or at least have an extended period of time to move off of it?
It's beem almost 25 years since .US started taking registrations directly, and the registry has never said anything to me to suggest that the legacy geographic domains were going away. I occasionally send in an update to a name server or DS record (my .ny.us are all signed) and they do what I ask. My church has that letter saying their .ny.us is theirs permanently.
You will also find a lot of A and MX records at state.XX.us and www.state.XX.us for the 51 values of XX.
And see https://localitymanagement.us/ where you can apply to manage localities that don't currently have managers.
TL;DR: it makes perfect sense to make it historical, but not without a transition path for what it means for its current users.
Since the IETF does not run .US, and that directly contradicts the multi-decade experience of the legacy subregistries, that seems awfully presumptuous. How about the IETF does the sensible thing here, which is nothing?
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