RFC 1480 · INFORMATIONAL · 1993
SUN · 14 JUN 2026
The US Domain
Overview
RFC 1480, “The US Domain”, is an Informational document published in June 1993 by A. Cooper, J. Postel. It obsoletes RFC 1386. The canonical text is published by the RFC Editor.
Abstract
This is a description of the US Top Level Domains on the Internet. This memo provides information for the Internet community. It does not specify an Internet standard.
What “Informational” means
Published for the general information of the community. It does not define an IETF standard and carries no standards-track status.
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Relationships to other RFCs
Other RFCs from 1993
- RFC 1479 Inter-Domain Policy Routing Protocol Specification: Version 1
- RFC 1481 IAB Recommendation for an Intermediate Strategy to Address the Issue of Scaling
- RFC 1478 An Architecture for Inter-Domain Policy Routing
- RFC 1482 Aggregation Support in the NSFNET Policy-Based Routing Database
- RFC 1477 IDPR as a Proposed Standard
- RFC 1483 Multiprotocol Encapsulation over ATM Adaptation Layer 5
- RFC 1476 RAP: Internet Route Access Protocol
- RFC 1484 Using the OSI Directory to achieve User Friendly Naming (OSI-DS 24 )