Re: usdns.org

["Craig A. Huegen" <c-huegen () quadrunner com>]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Eric Kozowski wrote:

==>I just received a fishy call from a guy a usdns.org.  Bottom line is they want
==>to bill for .US domain registrations and give us a kickback for the .US    
==>subdomains that we host.
==>
==>What do any of you know about this group?       

Well, since the two organizations are completely different (.us TLD is
hosted by IANA/ISI), I'd say tell them to stuff it and cc:
us-domain () isi edu.

chuegen@chuegen-sun:7:~>whois us-dom | more
United States of America top-level domain (US-DOM)
   Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA)
   c/o
   University of Southern California
   Information Sciences Institute
   4676 Admiralty Way
   Marina del Rey, CA 90292

   Domain Name: US

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      United States Domain Registrar  (USDR)  us-domain () ISI EDU
      (310) 822-1511

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chuegen@chuegen-sun:8:~>whois usdns.org
[rs.internic.net]
Name Consortium, Inc. (USDNS3-DOM)
   417 E. Sheridan St. Suite 127
   Dania, FL 33004
   US

   Domain Name: USDNS.ORG

   Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact:
      Brownley, Oprah Basil  (OBB2)  oprah () USDNS COM
      954 922-1899 (FAX) 954 922-1652

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/cah