.us Domain Names
.us domain names, registered by the book
America's own national ending, and before a registrar sells you one it owes you two rules. Every registrant needs a genuine connection to the United States. Under usTLD policy, WHOIS privacy is simply not on offer. Register from $7.99/yr, and the renewal figure appears on screen before payment.
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The Extension
Why .us?
As the country code of the United States, .us went back into general registration in 2002, and businesses, organisations and individuals have taken it up ever since for an address that says America out loud. Nexus is rule one. A registrant must hold a bona fide connection to the US: citizenship, residency, or a company or organisation with a genuine American presence, declared at the point you register. Qualify honestly and the burden weighs almost nothing at all. Fail to qualify and this is not a formality anyone should be fudging.
Rule two is the one a buyer most deserves to hear said out loud. Privacy and proxy registration are prohibited by usTLD policy, so registrant details on a .us appear in public in a way the post-GDPR gTLD world has largely forgotten. A firm already trading openly under its public identity tends not to mind. Someone who would rather the record stayed private has a sound reason to choose a different ending, and we say so at checkout, not after the money has gone.
Good Fit
.us works best for
- American businesses that want the national ending
- US arms of international brands trading domestically
- Community, civic and local-interest sites anywhere in the United States
- Brands built on an unmistakably American identity, stated plainly
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The rules stated before checkout
Nexus and the no-privacy rule go in front of you at the start, both of them. Plenty of registrars leave the pair buried in small print.
Standard machinery otherwise
Nothing surprising underneath. Delegation behaves, DNS behaves, auth-code transfers behave exactly as you already expect. Policy is the only place .us parts company with the rest.
Honest renewals, as everywhere
Before any money moves, the renewal figure sits next to the registration, and reminders land in a mailbox with a human behind it.
Common Questions
Questions about .us
What counts as a US nexus?
In broad terms: citizens and permanent residents of the US; companies and organisations incorporated in the United States, or holding a bona fide presence there; and foreign entities with a genuine US footing, an office or regular sales among them. You declare a nexus category as you register, and that declaration must be true. Policing sits with the usTLD, and names have been taken away over false claims.
Why can't I have WHOIS privacy on my .us?
usTLD policy bans privacy and proxy services across the whole ending, which is why. The US administration of the namespace chose that deliberately; it is not some registrar restriction we could waive if you asked nicely. Where a published registrant record will not work for your project, the honest answer is a different ending altogether, because no legitimate registrar can proxy a .us for you.
Can a British business, or any non-US company, hold a .us?
Only where the American footing is real: regular trade in the US, an office, or a comparable bona fide connection, declared under whichever nexus category fits. Register speculatively with no US link and the test fails outright. Have a genuine American presence and the ending is yours to use. Have an aspiration instead, and the right move is to take the brand there once the presence actually exists.
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