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Someone would have had to have signed up to administer the domain during the time that signups were available. In 1992, I think interest would have been pretty low in general. And once the internet became widely known, something.city.state.us domains were pretty unlikable. About the only thing they have going for them is the low low price of (usually) free.
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That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us.

I checked www.whois.us and oakland.ca.us is administered by locality-support [at] about [dot] us

Try sending them an email?

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That indicates that approval has been rolled up into GoDaddy at this point, and you’ll have to get a notarized letter from the city for them to issue you a domain.
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Just saw your other comment here. That's a bummer. I've been lucky to have never dealt with GoDaddy.
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Any idea who the current SF registrar is?
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Yup! Sonic.net

`whois sf.ca.us` will give you the email of the registrar (thanks cogitosum).

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They have to want one.
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Yeah I want to know how to get my local government to register themselves as one of these.
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