It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name • Hacker News Board

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by why_only_15 » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 5:44 AM UTC

laken wrote: post #142

why_only_15 wrote: post #71

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I feel like google is less likely to give me something fraudulent than e.g. the risk of me misspelling chase or the like

an attacker could purchase google ads for "chɑse.com" (note the unicode "s" instead of "s"

Seems unlikely google would let scammers with fake domains purchase ads, though maybe they have in the past.

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by Symbiote » Thu, Nov 28, 2019, 5:20 PM UTC

notatoad wrote: post #172

Symbiote wrote: post #98

Earlier quoted context omitted.

http://ai./ is a better example.

both pn and ai are giving me DNS errors in chrome on ubuntu.

The DNS server at work (which I maintain... oops) doesn't work, but home and other servers do work:

  host ai. 1.1.1.1
  Using domain server:
  Name: 1.1.1.1
  Address: 1.1.1.1#53
  Aliases:
  
  ai has address 209.59.119.34
  ai mail is handled by 10 mail.offshore.ai.

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by zurn » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:06 AM UTC

astura wrote: post #161

zurn wrote: post #113

Or too hard - why are they US only?

Because they created it as one of the original TLDs (along with .arpa, .com, .org, .net, .int, .edu, and .mil) for their research network, ARPANET. Later on the Internet was built from ARPANET.

But those others are not US-only, except .mil

Re: It's Way Too Easy to Get a .gov Domain Name

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Post by zurn » Mon, Dec 02, 2019, 11:07 AM UTC

delfinom wrote: post #156

zurn wrote: post #113

Or too hard - why are they US only?

It's the legacy of the internet starting off in the US. The US Government laid claim to .gov. Other countries instead operate .gov.countrytld

Only a handful of countries operate .gov.countrytld, they are mostly named like someoofficename.countrytld.