Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

Sun Oct 19 16:21:15 UTC 2014

On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco at ns.sol.net> wrote:
> 
>> But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty
>> now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there
>> was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was
>> some heavy lobbying against retiring .GOV in favor of .FED.US (and
>> other .US locality domains).
> [snip]
> 
> The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria
> that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible.   I
> believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace,
> then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on
> country;   the internet is global and  .GOV and .EDU are in Global
> Namespace.
> 
> So then, why aren't  .EDU and .GOV just  allowed to continue to exist
> but a community decision made to require   whichever registry will be
> contracted to manage .GOV to accept  registrations from _all_
> government entities  regardless of nationality  ?
> 
You forgot .MIL , this one will be even more fun to change...

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