YUP. >>NTIA currently contracts out the management of the .US domain to GoDaddy, by far the world’s largest domain registrar. >> Under NTIA regulations, the a

YUP. >>NTIA currently contracts out the management of the .US domain to GoDaddy, by far the world’s largest domain registrar. >> Under NTIA regulations, the administrator of the .US registry must take certain steps to verify that their customers actually reside in the United States, or own organizations based in the U.S. But Interisle found that whatever GoDaddy was doing to manage that vetting process wasn’t working. On reading that, my first thought was "why would anyone who has a clue expect GoDaddy to do anything resembling the right thing, especially if doing the wrong thing and/or doing it wrong will net them more money? Evidently (in this case, well-earned negative-) reputation counts for nothing.