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Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 02:27:00 -0400
On 10/19/14 10:32 AM, John Levine wrote: # Gee, someone should alert NANOG management that the list has fallen # through a wormhole into 1996. # On 10/19/14 12:51 PM, David Conrad wrote:
RFC 1591.
Which is circa 1994. The real answer is that although fed.us is used by some agencies, the overall requirement was stripped out of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. Basically, the DC area incumbent provider of .gov and .com was making so insanely much money per registration, they were able to <s>buy off</s> persuade enough politicians to keep their monopolistic status. Slowly, slowly, technical progress (Google) and cooperative agreements have eroded that "land grab" into an oligopoly instead.
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