[dogcow]

It's a shame that the .us locality namespace and delegated manager infrastructure has been allowed to languish. GoDaddy (and Neustar previously) have intentionally made it difficult or impossible to register new locality domains under namespaces managed by them (read: the majority of namespaces).

The delegated manager system truly represented the distributed, decentralized nature of the old Internet. That said, it is not completely dead; there are still a handful of delegated managers out there, and you can even convince some of them to "register" a new domain for you in the locality namespace!