Editing .us (section)

==History==
On February 15, 1985, .us was created as the Internet's first ccTLD.<ref>{{cite web|title=History of the Internet. ccTLDs in chronological order of Top Level Domain creation at the Internic.|first=Elisabeth|last=Portenueve|publisher=[[Association française pour le nommage Internet en coopération|AFNIC]]|date=October 23, 2003|access-date=March 29, 2015|url=http://www.ccwhois.org/ccwhois/cctld/ccTLDs-by-date.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20011012191130/http://www.ccwhois.org/ccwhois/cctld/ccTLDs-by-date.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 12, 2001}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/us.html|title=IANA — .us Domain Delegation Data|website=www.iana.org|access-date=2020-02-01}}</ref> Its original administrator was [[Jon Postel]] of the [[Information Sciences Institute]] (ISI) at the [[University of Southern California]] (USC). He administered .us under a subcontract that the ISI and USC had from [[SRI International]] (which held the .us and the gTLD contract with the [[United States Department of Defense]]) and later [[Network Solutions]] (which held the .us and the gTLD contract with the [[National Science Foundation]]).

Postel and his colleague Ann Westine Cooper<ref>{{cite web|url=https://public.resource.org/eti/RoundThree01.html|title=Exploring the Internet: Round Three, Marina del Rey|author=Carl Malamud|date=1992|website=public.resource.org|access-date=19 October 2018<!-- https://public.resource.org/eti/Preface.html https://public.resource.org/eti/index.html -->}}</ref> codified the .us ccTLD's policies in December 1992 as RFC 1386<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1386|title=The US Domain|first1=Postel|last1=Jon|first2=Cooper|last2=Ann Westine|website=tools.ietf.org|date=December 1992 |access-date=19 October 2018}}</ref> and revised them the following June in RFC 1480. Registrants could only register third-level domains or higher in a geographic and organizational hierarchy. From June 1993 to June 1997, Postel delegated the vast majority of the geographic subdomains under .us to various public and private entities. .us registrants could register with the delegated manager for the specific zone they wished to register in, but not directly with the .us administrator. In July 1997, Postel instituted a "50/500 rule" that limited each delegated manager to 500 localities maximum, 50 in a given state.<ref name="Neustar compliance 2013" />

In June 1998, Postel raised the possibility of covering [[Internet Assigned Numbers Authority|IANA]] operating costs by charging locality name registrars, who would pass the costs along to individual registrants. In September 1998, the [[United States Postal Service]] proposed funding the operations in order to assume control of .us, as part of a plan to diversify away from postage revenue.{{sfn|Wass|2003|p=127}} On October 1, 1998, the NSF transferred oversight of the .us domain to the [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]] (NTIA) of the [[United States Department of Commerce]].<ref>[https://www.ntia.doc.gov/federal-register-notice/2000/requesting-comments-draft-statement-work-regarding-us Requesting comments on draft statement of work regarding .us ]</ref> Postel died that month, leaving his domain administration responsibilities with ISI. In December 2000, these responsibilities were transferred to Network Solutions, which had recently been acquired by [[Verisign]].<ref name="Neustar compliance 2013" /><ref>[https://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/amendment-21-nsi-cooperative-agreement Amendment 21 to the NSI Cooperative Agreement]</ref><ref>[https://eprints.qut.edu.au/15901/1/Elizabeth_Williams_Thesis.pdf THE GLOBALISATION OF REGULATION AND ITS IMPACT ON THE DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM : DOMAIN NAMES AND A NEW REGULATORY ECONOMY by ELIZABETH A WILLIAMS]</ref>

On October 26, 2001, [[Neustar]] was awarded the contract to administer .us. On April 24, 2002, second-level domains under .us became available for registration. One of the first .us [[domain hack]]s, icio.us, was registered on May 3, 2002, for the creation of the subdomain [[Delicious (website)|del.icio.us]].<ref>[[Whois]] query for the domain names "DELICIO.US" and "ICIO.US". Whois database last updated March 29, 2015. Accessed March 29, 2015.</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=A Del.icio.us Interview|first=Michael|last=Lopp|author-link=Rands|work=Rands in Repose|date=December 3, 2004|access-date=March 29, 2015|url=http://randsinrepose.com/archives/a-delicious-int/}}</ref> A moratorium was placed on additional delegations of locality-based namespaces, and Neustar became the default delegate for undelegated localities.<ref>Manheim, Karl M. and Solum, Lawrence B., [https://digital.sandiego.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1009&context=lwps_econ "An Economic Analysis of Domain Name Policy"] (2004). University of San Diego Law and Economics Research Paper Series. 1. http://digital.sandiego.edu/lwps_econ/art1</ref> Neustar's contract was renewed by the [[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]] (NTIA) in 2007 and most recently in 2014.<ref name="Neustar compliance 2013" /><ref>{{cite web|title=.us Domain Space|publisher=[[National Telecommunications and Information Administration]]|date=February 17, 2015|access-date=March 28, 2015|url=http://www.ntia.doc.gov/page/2011/us-domain-space}}</ref>

On March 31, 2019, the .us registry made it clear that under its Acceptable Use Policy it would not allow the sale of opioids through the .us top level domain.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.about.us/blog/tackling-the-opioid-crisis-by-cutting-off-online-sales-in-the-ustld|title=Tackling the Opioid Crisis by Cutting off Online Sales in the usTLD - About.US}}</ref>

In Q2 2020, [[GoDaddy]] acquired Neustar's registry business.<ref>{{Cite press release |last= |first= |title=GoDaddy Acquires Neustar's Registry Business |url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/godaddy-acquires-neustars-registry-business-301036134.html |access-date=2023-10-26 |website=www.prnewswire.com |language=en}}</ref>