Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

Tue Oct 21 02:47:15 UTC 2014

having written the technical portion of winning proposal to ntia for the 
.us zone, i differ.

as i recall, having done the research, in the year prior to the ntia's 
tender some six people held some 40% of the major metro area subordinate 
namespaces. to my chagrin, relieved by a notice of termination days 
before my stock in the company vested, the winner adopted a 
"orange-black" model, deprecating the namespace's existing hierarchical 
registration model for a flat registration model.

the registration process model for .us is dissimilar to the registration 
process models of .edu, .mil and .gov, as are the contractors to the 
government.

-e

On 10/20/14 3:26 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
>
> Obviously no serious consideration was given to that plan 10 years 
> ago, or we wouldn't still be having the conversation today.