This is the community Internet domain for Ovid NY.
Back in the 1990s, all names in the .US (United States) domain had to use geographic names of the form
In many places, local community registrars volunteered to handle the registrations for a community. In 2001, the rules for .US were changed to allow arbitrary names, but many of the existing community registrars are still active.
Ovid still has a community registrar, so you can still register name.ovid.ny.us domains at no charge.
Registrations are handled by e-mail. If you are interested in registering a domain, write to hostmaster@ovid.ny.us and include: