Should .US be run like public infrastructure? (5.Viewing)

Aquarius said:

All countries should be run like a business and not a charity. In the real world you can't give to charity until your business gets profitable. Keep money at home instead of trying to run the world.

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mcm said:

I believe .US had a confusing hierarchy for quite some time. Instead of company.us, you had to register company.state.us or company.city.state.us. You'll still occasionally find government orgs using them (i.e. school.k12.ny.us).

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NiceNIC said:

If they are pushed too hard for profit, prices may go up, and some local users may simply default to .com instead. Over time, that could weaken adoption and reduce the extension’s long-term value.
It may also be that the strongest country domains are not always the most commercial ones, but the ones that people actually use in everyday business and online life.

So I do think the problem was not only marketing.

It was also habit formation. If your local namespace trains people to think in terms of company.state.us or even deeper structures, it is hard to later reposition .us as a clean mainstream alternative to .com.

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rlm said:

Is that even true? I have .us domains as old as 2002 where that was clearly not the case. From my experience, it was only government sites that used the .{state_abbr}.us structure.

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