The whois information indicates that this immensely patriotic attempt is being operated out of the UK. [The quoted statement above is all I could find on the site about how this TLD is supposed to work. The failure to make a fuller disclosure as to how this TLD will (and especially will not!) resolve compares poorly with the actions of more ethical alternate root operators, and strikes me as a fairly serious potential problem under the consumer law of many countries. So too does the fairly transparent attempt to cause confusion with the .us domain. Although I'm not a UK lawyer, I wonder what the UK Office of Fair Trading would have to say about it all?-mf]
$ whois dotusa.com
Whois Server Version 1.3
Domain names in the .com, .net, and .org domains can now be registered
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for detailed information.
Domain Name: DOTUSA.COM
Registrar: DOTSTER, INC.
Whois Server: whois.dotster.com
Referral URL: http://http://www.dotster.com/help/whois
Name Server: NS1.UNNIHOSTING.COM
Name Server: NS2.UNNIHOSTING.COM
Updated Date: 02-nov-2001
>>> Last update of whois database: Wed, 7 Nov 2001 05:14:10 EST <<<
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Registrant:
Quantum Management Limited
843 Finchley Road
London, England NW11 8NA
GB
Registrar: Dotster (http://www.dotster.com)
Domain Name: DOTUSA.COM
Created on: 05-MAR-99
Expires on: 05-MAR-02
Last Updated on: 13-SEP-01
Administrative Contact:
Management, Quantum simonfuller2@aol.com
Quantum Management
843 Finchley Road
London, NW11 8NA
GB
0208 938 3113
0208 938 3113
Technical Contact:
Management, Quantum simonfuller2@aol.com
Quantum Management Ltd
843 Finchley Road
London, NW11 8NA
GB
0208 938 3113
0208 938 3113
Domain servers in listed order:
NS1.UNNIHOSTING.COM
NS2.UNNIHOSTING.COM
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End of Whois Information
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