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Do .gov's have to be renewed every year with ICANN? What if a dept lets theirs lapse and some squatter swoops in and takes it? We'll start the bidding at $1B
by ourmandave 3y ago
Do .gov's have to be renewed every year with ICANN?
What if a dept lets theirs lapse and some squatter swoops in and takes it?
We'll start the bidding at $1B USD...
- ourmandave 3y agoDuring the government shutdown some TLS certificates expired, so depending how long it goes a domain renewal could get missed because nobody is working or the check bounces.
- xmprt 3y agoI'll pay for the domain if you find a way to buy a .gov as easily as you can buy a .com. I don't even think a regular citizen can get a .gov unless you incorporate a new city or something like that.
- chungy 3y agothe gov TLD is managed by the US government. It's very rare that you renew anything with ICANN, since you're almost always going at least to the entity that manages a TLD (unless you run a TLD, then I guess there'd be an ICANN fee). If you have a .com domain, you're renewing with VeriSign, the company that owns the com TLD.
- NoZebra120vClip 3y agoCurrently, the .gov sTLD is administered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
- thiht 3y agoYou’re confusing TLDs and domain names.
- 8organicbits 3y agoICANN has lots of rules around TLD assignment, so squatting .gov doesn't seem possible. But some have recurring cost. Here's gTLDs: > a fixed fee of US$6,250 per calendar quarter; (b) and a transaction fee of US$0.25. [1] .gov is not a gTLD, I'm not sure what financial relationship exists, if any. [1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...