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Posted by speckx 23 hours ago

Setting up a free *.city.state.us locality domain (2025)(fredchan.org)
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jrochkind1 16 hours ago|
Interesting, claim is that:

MD BALTIMORE.MD.US. alby@uunet.uu.net

I am guessing that uunet email address is not going to go anywhere!

pmcgoron 21 hours ago||
> FL HOTDOG.MIAMI.FL.US. arodriguez@houseit.com

I'm very confused by this entry. There isn't even a miami subdomain, just a Dade subdomain.

js2 21 hours ago|
Delegation can happen at a dot, but does have to happen at each dot. The current referral sequence is:

root-servers.net -> cctld.us -> localitymanagement.us -> miami.fl.us

And it ends there with an NXDOMAIN. Unsurprisingly, a list archived in 2009[1] is no longer accurate. If I'm reading this Internet Monthly Report[2] correctly, that domain came into existence in October 1998.

[1]: https://web.archive.org/web/20090909141302/http://neustar.us...

[2]: https://www.iana.org/archive/internet-monthly-reports/1998/i...

aquir 21 hours ago||
I wish there would be something like this in the UK but with county instead of state. E.g. swindon.wiltshire.uk or sheffield.southyorkshire.uk
pbhjpbhj 19 hours ago||
I was hoping there would be something funny like twatt.worcs.uk or reading.berks.uk ... That aside, what would you do with such a domain? You could register x.uk with Nominet UK presumably. Just a small matter of the bill.
hnlmorg 20 hours ago||
Buy the domain names then and offer those services.

The US state ones are just sub-domains. city.state.us isn’t a TLD.

aquir 18 hours ago||
someone has already registered all county.uk domains in 2019 :(
thrill 22 hours ago||
Aren’t there several states that have the same city name repeated within the state? I think there’d need to be a county delineator here too.
TallGuyShort 22 hours ago||
That gets extremely complicated. My town straddles the border between 2 counties. And you can't trivially have subdomains for counties and cities at the same level, because Wyoming has a Laramie city but it's in Albany County, not the neighboring Laramie County.

Did this just inspire the next "Falsehoods programmers believe about... Federalism"?

wat10000 21 hours ago||
Virginia cities are independent, not within counties. And there's both a Fairfax City and Fairfax County. Making things even more confusing, the county seat is Fairfax City despite the city not being part of the county. The county has fairfaxcounty.gov while the city has fairfaxva.gov.

There are a handful of other independent cities in the US, but the vast majority are in Virginia.

georgel 21 hours ago||
St. Louis is like this as well.
tialaramex 21 hours ago|||
If you have hierarchical naming, which DNS does, then the problem of name clashes is always a problem for whoever sits above those names and they can resolve it however they like.

If your state thought it was a good idea to have two cities named "Star City" that's on them to resolve however they like. Trial by endurance for the city mayor? Draw lots? Everybody in the state votes? Not my monkeys, not my circus.

DonHopkins 11 hours ago||
Look-alike Unicode characters.
DrewADesign 21 hours ago|||
The edge cases always make things so difficult:

Manhattan: New York County

Brooklyn: Kings County

The Bronx: Bronx County

Queens: Queens County

Staten Island: Richmond County

All New York City. Same municipality, 5 counties.

kmoser 21 hours ago|||
There's also the edge case of the (unofficial) 6th borough of NYC: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_borough
DonHopkins 11 hours ago|||
ny.ny.us

  New York City is a place so nice
  Everybody says it so they had to name it twice
  New York my happy love's you
  (I love you very much)
  I could not live without you
  So let's always keep in touch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82f7BB6zNOc
runjake 21 hours ago|||
You're right, but typically, when two towns in a state share a name, only one is an incorporated city at most. The other, or both, are usually unincorporated communities. Normally, unincorporated communities do not receive a city.state.us locality domain.
toast0 20 hours ago||
For city.state.us, I'm pretty sure first to file (while filing was available) wins...

Ohio doesn't (or at least historically didn't) have a highlander restriction for incorporated cities.

Oakwood, Cuyahoga County was incorporated in 1951 although Oakwood, Montgomery County was incorporated in 1908. There's also an Oakwood in Paulding County, but its wikipedia page doesn't have an incorporation date or explicitly declare it incorporated or not. I thought there was a famous Ohio city with a same named city elsewhere, but I must have been thinking of somewhere else. I will note that Pennsylvania has an awful lot of same named Townships.

City name in the US ends up being a pretty wild concept when you dig into the details. Often what people are using as a 'city name' is really the name of their post office which statistically has a high correlation with the city they live in. But of course, lots of people live outside incorporated cities, and postal boundaries are independent of political boundaries.

youvebeenbad 20 hours ago||
ooh, this reminds me of Falsehoods programmers believe about addresses...

https://www.mjt.me.uk/posts/falsehoods-programmers-believe-a...

uneekname 22 hours ago||
See also: http://nguyen.cincinnati.oh.us/locality.html

Edit: already linked in the article! That's what I get for not reading to the end!

odie5533 22 hours ago|
Seems like the primary use for locality domains is to explain to others how to get locality domains.
KPGv2 11 hours ago||
This is really cool, but scrolling through the list I find it hilarious that the seventh largest city in the USA has no locality domain but small towns in my home state that I've never even heard of have one.
evalu 19 hours ago||
could be very powerful, how to validate
adamrezich 18 hours ago||
Bummer, looks like most of the ones in South Dakota are assigned to noc@sd.net, so presumably they can't be used, despite being reserved.
brendanml 14 hours ago||
i wish this was in canada
runhelm 5 hours ago|
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