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Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
- Subject: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
- From: wbailey at satelliteintelligencegroup.com (Warren Bailey)
- Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 17:01:52 +0000
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
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I wish marriages worked like that.. ;)
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-------- Original message --------
From: Bryan Fields <Bryan at bryanfields.net>
Date: 10/20/2014 8:13 AM (GMT-08:00)
To: NANOG list <nanog at nanog.org>
Subject: Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
On 10/19/14, 8:05 AM, Matthew Petach wrote:
> Wondering if some of the long-time list members
> can shed some light on the question--why is the
> .gov top level domain only for use by US
> government agencies? Where do other world
> powers put their government agency domains?
>
> With the exception of the cctlds, shouldn't the
> top-level gtlds be generically open to anyone
> regardless of borders?
>
> Would love to get any info about the history
> of the decision to make it US-only.
The USA funded the early internet and so it got to make it's own legacy rules.
`murica
:D
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