Domain name registration .gov (.United States government)

An .gov is the extension for registering a domain name of the type United States government. Here are our prices, requirements and more information about registering a domain name for the extension .gov.

General information .gov
Top-level domain:	.gov
Country:	International
Purpose:	United States government
Price a year:	€ 149.00
Setup fee:	€ 399.00
Min. registration period:	1 year
IDN Support:	IDN not available
Subdomains (ccSLD):	No subdomains exist in this top-level domain
Restrictions
Min Characters:	2
Max Characters:	63
Max registrations:	Unlimited
Local contact:	No
Domain is company name:	No
Allowed characters:
Reserved names:	Not listed
Redemption period:	0 days
Delegation
Nameservers preconfigured:	No requirements
Nameservers on different subnet:	No
Working mailexchanges:	No
Transfers
Extra information
.gov (.government) a generic top-level domain used by government entities in the United States. The .gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the federal government. The U.S. is the only country that has a government-specific top-level domain in addition to its ccTLD, due to the origins of the Internet as a US Federal Government-sponsored research network (see NSFNET and ARPANET). Other countries typically use a second-level domain for this purpose, e.g., .gov.au for Australia, .gov.ar for Argentina, .gub.uy for Uruguay, .govt.nz for New Zealand, (NZ), .gov.uk for the United Kingdom, .gc.ca for Canada, .gouv.fr for France and .guv.ro[1] for Romania. Since the United States controls the .gov Top Level Domain, it would be impossible for another country to create a domain ending in .gov, for example .jp.gov. Some U.S. federal agencies use .fed.us rather than .gov. The Department of Defense and its subsidiary organizations use .mil. Some U.S. governmental entities use other domains, such as the use of .com domains by the United States Postal Service (which uses both usps.gov and usps.com for the same location, although it only advertises the .com version) and the United States Army's recruitment website (goarmy.com, this trend is repeated at the recruitment websites of the other branches of the U.S. Military). All governments in the U.S. are allowed to use .gov, such as atlantaga.gov for the city of Atlanta, loudoun.gov for the county of Loudoun, Virginia and georgia.gov for the U.S. state of Georgia. This was not always true; under an earlier policy, only federal agencies were allowed to use the domain, and agencies beneath cabinet level were required to use subdomains of their parent agency. There is a lack of consistency in addresses of state and local government sites, with some using .gov, some .us, some using both (the Commonwealth of Virginia uses both www.state.va.us and www.virginia.gov for the same location) and still others in .com, .org or another TLD. Contents To register a .gov domain, a letter of authorization must be submitted to the GSA. For federal agencies, the authorization must be submitted by cabinet-level chief information officer (CIO). For state governments, authorization from the governor or state CIO is required. Domain names for cities require authorization from the mayor or equivalent official; for counties, authorization may be submitted by county commissioners or their equivalent officials, or by the highest-ranking county official. [3] For Native Sovereign Nations, the authorization must come from the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
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