Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

> The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria
> that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible.   I
> believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace,
> then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on
> country;   the internet is global and  .GOV and .EDU are in Global
> Namespace.

Gee, someone should alert NANOG management that the list has fallen
through a wormhole into 1996.

To answer the original question, many governments use a subdomain
of their ccTLD such as gc.ca or gov.uk.  Or they just use a
name directly in the ccTLD such as bundesregierung.de.

R's,
John