[175292] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (sthaug@nethelp.no)
Sun Oct 19 08:14:25 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 14:12:22 +0200 (CEST)
To: mpetach@netflight.com
From: sthaug@nethelp.no
In-Reply-To: <CAEmG1=oaDZjA=bB7wRK-BGiSfX1Fn1F-6K2Vc8uzXjdwT2OoYQ@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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> 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?
Do you have reason to believe that governments of other countries would
*want* to use the .gov TLD?
Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sthaug@nethelp.no
