Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov
by gumby on Sunday July 23, 2023 @03:00PM
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> I'm sure there are oversights on who can acquire an inherently international .gov domain,
There's .INT if you have a use for one.
> turns out .gov is exclusively for the US, not sure I feel good about that, particularly as .com and .net are very much not just for the US.
This goes back to when the DNS was designed in the late 70s. Things were different back then (remember the big-endian british addresses, gb.corp.foo IIRC).
And I see you haven't learnt about .MIL yet either...
There's .INT if you have a use for one.
> turns out .gov is exclusively for the US, not sure I feel good about that, particularly as .com and .net are very much not just for the US.
This goes back to when the DNS was designed in the late 70s. Things were different back then (remember the big-endian british addresses, gb.corp.foo IIRC).
And I see you haven't learnt about .MIL yet either...