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Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by bombcar on Sunday July 23, 2023 @12:46PM (#36837086)
.com and .net and .org are only "internationally available" because the registrars didn't care to restrict them (IIRC, one of them was moderately restrictive in the beginning, perhaps .org requiring an actual organization of some sort).

.mil is also US only.

The real hotness is to host on .arpa - https://blog.fhrnet.eu/2019/03/13/fun-with-arpa-domains/

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Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by snowwrestler on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:12PM (#36842708)
The TLD .org was originally for non-profits, to distinguish them from the for-profit companies found over at the .com TLD. In the beginning, you had to prove nonprofit status to get a .org domain.

That’s no longer required, but still there was a big fight a few years ago when the .org registrar was set to be sold to a private equity firm. It’s the TLD of choice for nonprofits, as an echo of that early restriction.

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