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Then again, this is government we are talking about so buying a $10 domain is probaly three weeks worth of paperwork. It's not that bad. It is slightly annoyi
by xenophonf 9y ago
Then again, this is government we are talking about so buying a $10 domain is probaly three weeks worth of paperwork.
It's not that bad.
It is slightly annoying that the procurement rules don't let sysadmins buy multi-year domain registrations---not even for .gov domains.
Ultimately, there's nothing stopping a federal employee or contractor from buying another domain except ignorance of good infosec practices. Even a .gov domain isn't all that expensive---$400/year is a drop in the bucket of federal spending.
- jimktrains2 9y agoWait, .gov domains cost money? I guess I just thought the us government assigned them as needed to agencies. Never thought about cross agency bills.
- xenophonf 9y ago41 CFR part 102-173, the law that authorizes GSA to run the dot-gov registry, allows them to recover their operational costs from registrants: https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title41-vol3/xml/CFR-2010-title41-vol3-part102-id2024.xml https://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CFR-2010-title41-vol3/xml/CFR-...
- jimktrains2 9y agoIt completely makes sense, I just never thought about it.