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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rob Seastrom)
Mon Oct 20 09:39:40 2014

X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
From: Rob Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 09:39:31 -0400
In-Reply-To: <5444EA7F.2000504@foobar.org> (Nick Hilliard's message of "Mon,
 20 Oct 2014 11:57:03 +0100")
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org> writes:

> On 19/10/2014 13:05, Matthew Petach wrote:
>> Would love to get any info about the history
>> of the decision to make it US-only.
>
> incidentally, why does the .gov SOA list usadotgov.net in its SOA?  The web
> site for the domain looks like it's copied from drjanicepostal.com.  Has
> USGOV decided to open a new executive branch for podiatry?

Government's got to keep on its feet.

-r


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