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.US Extension Tops 2 Million Registered Domains For 1st Time After 31 Years

Posted on the 08 October 2016 by Worldwide @thedomains

.US has passed two million domain names for the  first time since the extension was unched 31 years ago.

Yes .US was launched on February 15, 1985; 31 years ago as the first ccTLD.

ON the last day of the $.10 sale by the domain name registrar Uniregistry.com, .US domains had a net add of 28,000 domains making the total amount of .US domain registrations at 2,001,216.

As of March of 2016 there were just over 1.7 million .US domains registered.

The .US extension is managed by Neustar (NSR).

Under .us nexus requirements, .us domains may be registered only by the following qualified entities:

Any United States citizen or resident,
Any United States entity, such as organizations or corporations,
Any foreign entity or organization with a bona fide presence in the United States


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