Carlsbad.CA.US Geographical Domain Names

The Carlsbad.CA.US domain registers hosts of libraries, museums, city agencies, as well as businesses and home computers. The registration service is currently free. This is subject to change at any time, with 90 days notice. There is a limit of one domain name per government, business, or person. Anyone with a computer in Carlsbad, California may be registered in the Carlsbad.CA.US domain hierarchy. A whois server is maintained at whois.carlsbad.ca.us. This is also accessible via an online form

The CI.Carlsbad.CA.US domain name is reserved for City of Carlsbad government agencies. This service is separate from the InterNIC Registration Services provided by NSI for the .COM, .ORG, and .NET domains.

There are two types of registrations:

• Delegation where a branch of the Carlsbad.CA.US domain is delegated to an organization running name servers to support that branch (e.g., Acme.Carlsbad.CA.US)
• Direct Registration are domain names for those with either an IP-host (with a permanent Internet Protocol (IP) address) or a forwarding e-mail host (i.e., a mail host needing a Mail Exchange (MX) record to send and receive e-mail).

Instructions

New Lame Delegation Policy (effective 8/11/2000):

Two name servers (DNS) must be set up before a request is made to delegate a zone under Carlsbad.CA.US hierarchy. The requester must be be a resident of Carlsbad, California, have a business in Carlsbad, or represent a government agency in Carlsbad. These name servers must have proper Start of Authority (SOA) and Name Server (NS) records.

This policy is neccessary because of difficulties with improperly configured name servers in the past.

References

• For general information on US Domain Registration Services, see USC ISI's http://www.nic.us/
• RFC 1480 reviews the structure of the US Domain.
• RFC 1591 is an overview of the domain name structure.
• DNS and BIND, by Cricket Liu, Paul Albitz, & Mike Loukides (3rd ed., 1998) This is the classical reference manual and tutorial on name servers. Get it if you deal with DNS and save yourself and others a lot of headaches.
• Carlsbad.CA.US Whois Server whois.carlsbad.ca.us

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