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RFC 1816 U.S. Government Internet Domain Names August 1995
indented listings unless prohibited below) as listed in this
document are eligible for registration directly under .GOV.
B) Autonomous law enforcement components of top-level entities
(e.g., "Federal Bureau of Investigation", "Secret Service", "Coast
Guard") are also eligible for registration.
C) Cross-agency collaborative organizations (e.g., "Federal
Networking Council", "Information Infrastructure Task Force") are
eligible for registration under .GOV upon presentation of the
chartering document and are the only non-FIPS-listed
organizations eligible for registration under .GOV.
D) Subsidiary, non-autonomous components of top-level or other
entities are not eligible for separate registration.
International organizations listed in this document are NOT
eligible for registration under .GOV.
E) Organizations listed as "Federally Aided Organizations" are not
eligible for registration under .GOV and should register under
.ORG or other appropriate top-level domain.
F) Organizations subsidiary to "Department of Defense" must
register under the ".MIL" domain via the Defense Data Network
Network Information Center - contact .
The only standard exceptions to these rules are changes to
governmental structure due to statutory, regulatory or executive
directives not yet reflected in the above document. The requesting
agency should provide documentation in one of the above forms to
request an exception. Other requests for exception should be
referred to the Federal Networking Council.
2) A domain name should be derived from the official name for the
organization (e.g., "USDA.Gov" or "Agriculture.GOV".) The
registration shall be listed in the registration database under the
official name (per FIPS 95-1) for the organization or under the name
in the chartering document.
3) Only ONE registration and delegation shall be made per agency.
The .GOV registration authority shall provide registrations on a
first-come first-served basis. It is an individual agency matter as
to which portion of the agency is responsible for managing the domain
space under a delegated agency domain.
4) Those agencies and entities that have multiple registrations under
.GOV may retain them for a maximum of 3 years from the publication
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