My understanding re .gov has always been that it was assigned to *federal*
governmental organizations, departments, etc. States do not use .gov, to
the best of my (admitedly limited) knowledge.
Is that not the case?
nrt
Neela R. Taub
Practising Law Institute
ntaub@pli.edu
212-824-5732
212-824-5982 (fax)
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From: pmeyer@AICPA.ORG [mailto:pmeyer@AICPA.ORG]
Sent: Tuesday, November 02, 1999 10:24 AM
To: rshutt@netspace.net.au; law-lib@ucdavis.edu
Subject: Re[2]: .gov in URL ?? - Reply To Troy Johnson's Posting
I would agree with Ron's post, except for one thing. The same thing should
be
true of the ".org" listings, but I know students who have received ".org"
domain
names here in the States, because of the overcrowding in the ".com" arena,
and
in New Jersey, my home state, the ".gov" is not even used in many
departments,
but rather the ".state.nj.us" is used. Supposedly those designations are
reserved, but I'm not sure about the others, and since not all states are
using
the domain names with the same structure, it makes things difficult.
Pat Meyer
Reference Librarian
AICPA Library
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Subject: Re: .gov in URL ?? - Reply To Troy Johnson's Posting
Author: MIME:rshutt@netspace.net.au
Date: 11/1/99 7:37 PM
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)
Barrister And Solicitor
Consultant And Trainer In Computer-Assisted Legal Research
Lecturer In Computerised Legal Research (02.10.95 to 02.10.98)
Internet Sites For Lawyers - http://www.viclf.asn.au/research.html
Personal Home Page - http://www.viclf.asn.au/pers1.html
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