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Or too hard - why are they US only?
by zurn 7y ago
Or too hard - why are they US only?
- anoncake 7y agoWhat would be the point? How often do you want to make sure you are on a government website without even caring of which country?
- delfinom 7y agoIt's the legacy of the internet starting off in the US. The US Government laid claim to .gov. Other countries instead operate .gov.countrytld
- zurn 7y agoOnly a handful of countries operate .gov.countrytld, they are mostly named like someoofficename.countrytld.
- astura 7y agoBecause they created it as one of the original TLDs (along with .arpa, .com, .org, .net, .int, .edu, and .mil) for their research network, ARPANET. Later on the Internet was built from ARPANET.
- zurn 7y agoBut those others are not US-only, except .mil