Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

Mon Oct 20 15:06:38 UTC 2014

On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 10:52 AM, Stephen Satchell <list at satchell.net> wrote:
> On 10/20/2014 07:20 AM, Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu wrote:
>> On Mon, 20 Oct 2014 05:58:01 -0400, shawn wilson said:
>>
>>> Bad idea. I'm betting we'd find half of gov web sites down due to not being
>>> able to reboot and issues in old coldfusion and IIS and the like (and
>>> needing to fix static links and testing etc).
>>
>> You say that like it's a bad thing....
>
> It's a dollar thing -- show me a substantial return on the investment

Indeed

>
> Adobe and Microsoft would *love* the increased revenue from updates that
> would have to be applied to all those old servers.  And what about those
> sites that were made using Front Page?  Talk about a nightmare.  A
> costly one.
>

Oh yeah, I totally forgot about old FrontPage. I was thinking Homesite
or Dreamweaver, but idk FrontPage from ~10 years back would port very
clean into anything modern. So, if anything there needed changing,
you'd have to do a manual cleanup of that code.