On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Rubens Kuhl <rube...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Wondering if some of the long-time list members >> can shed some light on the question--why is the >> .gov top level domain only for use by US >> government agencies?
RFC 1591. >> Where do other world >> powers put their government agency domains? Under their ccTLDs. > Note that .mil is also restricted to US DoD, Yes. See RFC 1591. > and that although .com is not > restricted to US citizens and companies, it is under contract with US DoC. > The only legacy gTLDs that are not in US control of some sort are .net and > .org. No. NET is under essentially the same contractual agreement as .COM (specifically, Cooperative Agreement NCR-9218742). By the terms of Amendment 24 of that CA, ORG was removed from the CA when that registry moved to PIR (in 2002 I believe). Regards, -drc
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