Originally Posted by hiOsilver

In what appears to have been an unannounced drop, thousands of previously reserved .us domains were released for registration with little, if any, public notice by Neustar, the registry manager for .us.

We are talking about domains like:

Colorado.us
Connecticut.us
Hawaii.us
Kentucky.us
Nevada.us
NewMexico.us
WestVirginia.us
YubaCity.us
Annuity.us
Futures.us
Stockoption.us

These are names that were previously reserved and it is the first time that any of these names have been released. One individual, a DNF member, initially registered all of these and hundreds more.

I hesitate to point a finger at anyone, as I only know of a few details, but frankly, this deal stinks to high heaven.

The domain owner community should pursue this with the US Dept of Commerce. I plan to make a similar post on Rick's Board.

I have not attempted to contact Neustar yet.

Credit for breaking this story goes to Ron Jackson of DNJournal.com. See last Tuesday's Domain Sales column (still the current sales column until tonight).