[cmdoptesc]

That Neustar list is horribly outdated from 2009 and didn't list sf.ca.us and had scruz.net as the administrator for san-francisco.ca.us.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?

[nickswalker]

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.

[cmdoptesc]

Just saw your other comment here. That's a bummer. I've been lucky to have never dealt with GoDaddy.

[vineyardmike]

Any idea who the current SF registrar is?

[cmdoptesc]

Yup! Sonic.net

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