Re:It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
by xyz-x on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:25AM
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Does anybody know why the USA hogs the toplevel domain? It's not the only government in the world. It would seem more just to make it more like .com than .edu.
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Re:It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
by ptaipale on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:41AM
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Obviously, because of history of Internet deriving from Arpanet. The whole domain name structure grew out of the needs of the US government, even if the .com domain was largest TLD from the start.
Re:It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
by astura on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @07:41AM
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Nope, .gov belongs to the US, so they get to hog it.
It's a historical vestige, the Internet started out as a U.S. government-sponsored research network, so they built it for their own needs. There's absolutely no reason to them to give that up.
Re:It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
by zokier on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @02:31AM
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It's a perk from building the internet. Early bird gets the worm etc
Re:It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name
by velosol on Wednesday November 27, 2019 @03:43PM
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In addition to all the siblings, government isn't always spelled with 'gov' so it would be useful to the subset of countries where those letters make sense. Compared to say Mexico with http://gob.mx .