Tag Archives: .gov

Mon 29th December 2014
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
Interesting motive for a city changing the domain name - City cites credibility for switching from .org to .gov. The Town of West Hartford recently changed its domain name from a .org to a .gov, and I found its rationale for doing so rather interesting. Here’s a news brief from West Hartford News: This month, the Town of West Hartford changed its domain name from westhartford.org to westhartfordct.gov. The .gov domain offers a higher level of scrutiny that only federal, state and local governments are allowed to use. ... read more ...
Fri 26th December 2008
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
How .Gov Domain Names Work - .Gov domain names are highly restricted domains. Here’s how they work. Yes, it’s a slow newsweek. Save for a $33 million cybersquatting judgment and NameMedia pulling its IPO, not much goes on in a holiday week. So here’s another post I saved for a slow newsweek like this. Earlier this week I reviewed .edu domain names including who could register them. In this article we’ll take a look at .gov. .Gov is a top level domain name reserved exclusively for ... read more ...