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Originally Posted by fini obviously someone knew; how else would they have managed to swoop in and register them? IMHO your only real complaint is that there wasn't enough notice and what ever IS enough notice???
The deal may 'stink' for people who failed to get the domains they want, but I can't see why a registrar particularly has to tell anyone anything before it launches a new product (which is, effectively, what it is)...
fini
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This is an issue of trust with the public's property. The US Dept of Commerce hired Neustar to manage the .us registry. Neustar reserved certain names, including all of the states, plus major cities (as in DenverCity.us), plus relevant generics. These either should have been help in perpetuity until some administration of the State of Hawaii or whatever finally decided to use the domain, or, if they were to be released, then this amounted to a new issue of domains.
Off the top of my head, I could see Hawaii.us being worth at least $1 million to the people of the State of Hawaii, and maybe more.
There is certainly the appearance of an inside deal here. The notice on the neustar website was really not there at all. According to Ron Jackson, month after month, the release notice would be incremented by a month, lulling those interested into believing that these domains would never be released.
For hundreds of these domains, collectively worth many millions of dollars to be directed to one person's hands with no notice is scandalous. Do you think that the US Dept of Commerce would agree to give this valuable property to a single person with no reasonable public notice? This has nothing to do with a few people feeling like that were left out.