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The title should mention that it is for the US only.


The United States owns and operates the `.gov` domain, US only is implied.


No one else uses the gov TLD. Gov.xx maybe, but that’s a different TLD.


classic us defaultism. "the government" and no specifying needed


At the time .gov was defined, the entire DNS system was a US military project on the ARPA-Internet. It was neither global nor publicly accessible at the time.


This is a predominantly US site, run by a US business. There's other nationalities on here, which is great, but it's going to be US-centric.


Feel free to take it up with ICANN.


well we literally invented the internet, so...




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