Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

[Bill Woodcock <woody () pch net>]

On Oct 21, 2014, at 6:09 AM, manning bill <bmanning () isi edu> wrote:
> there was/is near zero reason to technically extend/expand the number of TLDs.

Equally, no reason not to.

> On 20October2014Monday, at 12:19, Sandra Murphy <sandy () tislabs com> wrote:
>
> > By the time of RFC1591, March 1994, authored by Jon Postel, said:
> >
> > GOV - This domain was originally intended for any kind of government
> >        office or agency.  More recently a decision was taken to
> >        register only agencies of the US Federal government in this
> >        domain.
> >
> > No reference as to who, when, or how.

Passive voice considered harmful.

                                -Bill

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