Re: .gov in URL ?? - Reply To Troy Johnson's Posting

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Re Troy Johnson's posting:-

Quite apart from the technical aspects of domain name registration, surely
it would be a pretty daft thing to do for an organisation that was *not* in
fact a governmental one, to register (or attempt to register) its website
with the "gov" component in its URL. It would seem to me to necessarily run
into issues of fraud and/or misrepresentation, by implying (scil.a
factually non-existent) connection with government. I would have thought
that this would lay the relevant site owner open to action from (inter
alia) those governmental departments who felt that their clients were being
misled, and a range of consumer-protection bodies, including the FCT (in
the USA) and the Australian Competition And Consumer Commission (ACCC) in
Australia. After all - what is the point of domain names such as "gov",
"mil" etc if an Internet user can't rely upon them meaning precisely what
they imply ?

Ronald S Huttner LL.B.(Hons)
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