.gov

. gov is a generic top -level domain ( gTLD ) whose name is derived from the term government ( government). It was introduced on 1 January 1985, making it one of the oldest addresses at all.

Use

The use of. Gov is reserved exclusively for government agencies of the United States and by the General Services Administration, headquartered in Fairfax (Virginia ) monitors. For the technical operation of the company VeriSign since December 2010 responsible, that too. Com and. Supervised net. The fee for a. Gov domain is annually at 125 U.S. dollars. The U.S. is the only country that. Has in addition to its country-specific suffix us an additional TLD. This is because the Domain Name System and has basically developed the Internet from the ARPANET, which was a project of the federal authorities. Individual organizations, such as the Department of Defense of the United States rather than engage. Mil. Gov back.

In June 2011, Barack Obama called the first U.S. president insight into the database of the registry. The aim was according to official figures, to gain knowledge of all the websites of the public administration and to reduce the number of tenders for the bureaucracy.

Security

Since March 2009 used. Gov the DNSSEC process by which a manipulation of domains to be difficult under the suffix. The launch was marked by problems: Among other things, the server was not available, which should validate the certificates of the DNS. Later returned to normal operation, but were diverse in August 2013. Gov domains due to a new problem at all unreachable. The authority cited the reason a program error.

According to a study by the security firm McAfee provides. Gov the safest generic top -level domain dar. is due to the strict award criteria and the fact that very few domains were awarded.

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