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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

Country International
Purpose United States government
Status Active
Price per 1 year € 149.00
Renew fee per 1 year € 149.00
Setup fee € 399.00
Min. registration period 1 year
IPv6 Support No
DNSSec Support Yes
IDN Support IDN not available
Price per 1 year € 149.00
Transfer fee per 1 year € 149.00
Trade fee per 1 year € 149.00
Renew fee per 1 year € 149.00
Setup fee € 399.00
Restore fee € 0
Min Characters 2
Max Characters 63
Max registrations Unlimited
Only company's No
Local contact No
Domain is company name No
Passport No
VAT number No
Trademark No
Local trademark No
Reserved names Not listed

Nameservers preconfigured No requirements
Nameservers on different subnet No
Working mailexchanges No
Zone update time 0
Whois privacy No
Whois server whois.nic.gov
Edit whois No
Whois update 0
Lock domain No
EPP connectie No
Update handles No
Deletion timeframe 0
Expiration timeframe 0
Redemption period 0 days

.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.

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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.
Name
Address
Admin General Services Administration
Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)
Office of Planning & Strategic Solutions (QTD)
10304 Eaton Place
Fairfax Virginia 22030
United States
donna.samblanet@gsa.gov
+1 703 306 6702
+1 540 301 0160
Admin email donna.samblanet@gsa.gov
Tech General Services Administration
Federal Acquisition Service (FAS)
Office of Planning & Strategic Solutions (QTD)
10304 Eaton Place
Fairfax Virginia 22030
United States
donna.samblanet@gsa.gov
+1 703 306 6702
+1 540 301 0160
Portal http://www.dotgov.gov
Whois whois.dotgov.gov

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