Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

Tue Oct 21 04:52:38 UTC 2014

i won't comment on your experience, having no direct knowledge. why you 
comment on mine is uninteresting.

-e

On 10/20/14 9:03 PM, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 10/20/14 7:47 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote:
>> having written the technical portion of winning proposal to ntia for the
>> .us zone, i differ.
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> The plan I outlined was discussed about 2 years after Neustar took 
> over management, and TMK was never actually discussed with Neustar.
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>> 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.
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> Yes, but the locality-based name space still exists. I used to hold 
> some names under it, but gave them up when I moved out of state. 
> Meanwhile, several states actively use their name space. But ...
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>> 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.
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> ... none of this is relevant to the proposal at hand. Neustar manages 
> the domain on behalf of the USG. There is nothing preventing them from 
> changing the way it is used, and the 10 year period I proposed takes 
> runout of existing contracts into account (since EDU, GOV, and MIL 
> would need continued operation during that period anyway).
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