PA's major advertising for .US

[deist]

Check out PA's new license plate:
http://www.dmv.state.pa.us/license_plates/plate-pa-large.shtml

www.state.pa.us
That's on millions of cars being seen by millions of drivers every day right now.

 

[Duke]

Very interesting. I wonder if the .us registrar slipped them some money to do that!

 

state.pa.us looks like a throwback to when .us required registrations to be made in state subdomains.

 

[deist]

yeah I would prefer they use www.pa.us

 

[David G]

Originally posted by deist yeah I would prefer they use www.pa.us

PA.US is a registry reserved name, one of many geographical reserved .us names, including city names, US govt & agency names, state names and even abbreviations.

However, interestingly, it seems they forgot to reserve a few big city names though they reserved most all of them, and they even reserved many of the small city suburban names and small towns too. LOL

For example, they forgot to reserve big cities like CityOfCleveland.US and CityOfMiami.US (both still available as of today) but they did reserve small city names like CityOfBoulder.US, CityOfSedona.US and CityOfFlagstaff.US (just a few of zillions of such examples).

P.S. Perhaps the member who asked about Cleveland real estate names could use it as a sub-domain, i.e. RealEstate.CityOfCleveland.US - which I think is a very good name. CityOfCleveland.us may be registered here -

www.3-g.com/domain-registration/reg.htm

 

[deist]

I figured such names were reserved by the registry for the government's use given that the government is already using subdomains of them...

 

[Duke]

They do allow city and state combos. I have Tampa-Florida.us.

 

[jalapeno]

That's interesting. Throwback or not, it will bring a lot more attention to the .us domain, at least in PA....

 

[RON2]

Pennsylvania has had their .us domain on their license plates since 1999. I have even seen a couple driving around in California.

 

[deist]

Yeah, the site says it started in 99 and finishes getting on all plates this year. PA plates are riding all across the country, those pesky traveling people!

 

This is offically going too far IMHO.

 

[dtobias]

They've been using this address on their license plates for several years now, starting well before the recent "relaunching" of .us by Neustar. The address is in the standardized, logically structured scheme for official state government sites, www.state.[abbr].us, and it would be logical and convenient if all 50 states followed that scheme instead of the crazy-quilt of actual names they use. I've featured Pennsylvania on my Domain Name Hall of Fame to congratulate them for using and promoting their logical address instead of a dumb-ass dot-com name like so many other states.