[175348] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc))
Mon Oct 20 19:20:29 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)" <marcus.sachs@verizon.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 19:20:19 -0400
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