IP: more on Public Interest Groups Decry .us "Sell-Off"

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Russell Nelson <nelson () crynwr com>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 01:48:13 -0400 (EDT)
To: Alan Davidson <abd () cdt org>
Cc: farber () cis upenn edu
Subject: Re: IP: Public Interest Groups Decry .us "Sell-Off"

> Dave - I thought IP readers might be interested in the attached
> letter sent today by CDT, along with Common Cause and the Media
> Access Project, raising concerns about the sell-off of .us
> second-level domain names last week.

A few interesting statistics about the three-letter second-level .us
domain names:

There are 47952 possible three-letter/digit/dash names.
Of them,   8886, or 18% of these names have already been taken[1].
Of them,   7404, or 15% of these names are owned by just 20 companies.
Of them,   2705, or  5% of these names are owned by a single company.

There are 17576 possible three-letter names.
Of them,   7968, or 45% of these names are already taken.

djf.us, (David J. Farber) is already taken.
rnn.us, (Russell N. Nelson) is already taken.
abd.us, (Alan B. Davidson) is already taken.
Woe unto anyone who wants a .us vanity domain!

[1] based on the existance of NS records in the .us zone.

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