I used to do contracting work for a state government agency (that also owned the .gov and .us domains), and they had rules about what could be hosted on .gov vs

I used to do contracting work for a state government agency (that also owned the .gov and .us domains), and they had rules about what could be hosted on .gov vs. .us that were sufficiently restrictive that I was told on the first day that we only ever deploy things to .us. Perhaps something similar exists for NY, and/or that "rule" was actually federal?