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Are there government domains in the USA that don't live under ".gov" or ".mil" top-level domains? In Germany it is all over the place. For example the official
by trallnag 2y ago
Are there government domains in the USA that don't live under ".gov" or ".mil" top-level domains? In Germany it is all over the place. For example the official website for federal elections is "bundeswahlleiter.de" and "bundeswahlleiterin.de" depending on whether the election manager is male or female.
- astura 2y agoYes, plenty, even for the federal government. There's nothing that compels government entities to use .gov. A few I can think of: https://www.usps.com/ https://www.usps.com/ https://www.goarmy.com/ https://www.goarmy.com/
- notfed 2y ago"Trust" is a pretty compelling reason.
- psd1 2y agoIf DNS were invented by German speakers, then requests would have a field for noun case...
- TZubiri 2y agoNow you have me wondering how the cyclades protocol is different from IP. Presumably the protocol rejects malformed packets even if they would be still parseable, and they would additionally berate them in the reply code.
- croisillon 2y agothey could have solved this with a Nigerian tld bundeswahlleitu.ng and then shared it with the other German speaking countries :)
- n_plus_1_acc 2y agobundeswahlleitung.de would be fine
- sethaurus 2y agoThere's a quite comprehensive list of them here: https://github.com/GSA/govt-urls https://github.com/GSA/govt-urls