[175305] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Sun Oct 19 12:51:26 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGFn2k1pW8iYgYJuMNPK6vBRRYNMM+jDxbK+Gy7fgZTL-0pADA@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2014 09:51:12 -0700
To: Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Rubens Kuhl <rubensk@gmail.com> 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? =20
RFC 1591.
>> Where do other world
>> powers put their government agency domains?
Under their ccTLDs.
> Note that .mil is also restricted to US DoD,
Yes. See RFC 1591.
> and that although .com is not
> restricted to US citizens and companies, it is under contract with US =
DoC.
> The only legacy gTLDs that are not in US control of some sort are .net =
and
> .org.
No. NET is under essentially the same contractual agreement as .COM =
(specifically, Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742). By the terms of =
Amendment 24 of that CA, ORG was removed from the CA when that registry =
moved to PIR (in 2002 I believe).
Regards,
-drc
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