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.gov Domains: rules and registry
.gov is a sponsored top-level domain listed in the authoritative IANA Root Zone Database. Its listed manager is Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
- RegistryCybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
Signal profile
- Brevity 94
- Namespace depth 23
- RDAP readiness 100
- DNSSEC 100
- NS breadth 50
- Registration scale n/a
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About .gov domains
Sponsored extensions serve a defined community, so registration is usually limited to eligible members of that community.
Who can register a .gov domain?
Registration eligibility has not yet been verified in this directory. Check the registry’s current policy before registering; country-code and sponsored extensions can have specific requirements.
.gov domain registration prices
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Root zone and registry agreement
The facts that do not change monthly
Delegation, operator and protocol support, taken from the IANA root zone and the ICANN registry agreement data.
- Registry manager
- Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
- Registry operator
- Not recorded
- Delegated to the root
- Not recorded
- Registry contract signed
- Not recorded
- Authoritative nameservers
- 4
- DNSSEC signed
- Yes
- RDAP available
- Yes
- Internationalised label
- No
- Third-level registration
- Not recorded
- Specification 13 brand TLD
- Not recorded
IANA Root Zone Database
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN gTLD contract data
ICANN gTLD contract data
IANA root zone
Root delegation DS record
IANA RDAP bootstrap registry
IANA root zone
ICANN registry agreement
ICANN registry agreement
Namespace beneath .gov
1 ICANN boundary rules Registration boundaries recognised beneath this TLD.
0 Private boundary rules Privately operated suffixes, such as hosting subdomains.
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