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The General Services Administration (GSA) is gearing up for the completion of the transition of .GOV domains to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. The agency has been looking for support services to help manage the .GOV registry as i...
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January 11, 2022 DomainGang
.Gov, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, dot .GOV, GSA
In March, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) took over control of the .GOV top level domain. As part of the transition agreement set forth in the DOTGOV Act, CISA has to to provide domain registry services to federal, state and...
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July 26, 2021 DomainGang
.Gov, .gov domains, CISA, dot .GOV, US Government
Visitors to State.GOV that attempted to view president Donald Trump’s bio page were shown a notice indicating his termination as of today. The same notice appeared on vice president Mike Pence’s bio page, an odd timing due to the ongoing at...
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January 11, 2021 DomainGang
.gov domains, Donald Trump bio State.gov, dot .GOV, state.gov, US Department of State
President-elect, Joe Biden, received the green light from GSA yesterday, after a controversial delay of three weeks. The next US President has already been on the forefront of presenting his strategy to combat the Covid-19 pandemic, rebuild the economy...
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November 24, 2020 DomainGang
.Gov, .gov domains, Build Back Better, BuildBackBetter.GOV, dot .GOV, GSA, joe biden, political domains
If you’re a government entity in the US, you’re probably entitled to your own dot .GOV domain name. The DotGov Program, part of the General Services Administration, operates the .GOV top-level domain (TLD) and makes it available to US-based...
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August 17, 2020 DomainGang
dot .GOV
In case you forgot, 2020 is a US census year, and in the era of the Coronavirus it’s great to see the process being completed electronically. No US census employees are going to be going door to door to take your statistical information, and risk...
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March 18, 2020 DomainGang
Census 2020, domain sightings, Domains in the wild, dot .GOV, my2020Census.GOV, US Census
This is one for the facepalm department. An unauthorized individual managed to register a dot .GOV domain name, using fake papers and social engineering. Apparently, the US General Services Administration– the federal agency responsible for manag...
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November 27, 2019 DomainGang
brian krebs, Domain Crime, dot .GOV, Exeterri.GOV, Krebs
The dramatic situation with the government shutdown has just claimed another victim: dot .GOV domains. After working without pay for more than three weeks, federal employees tasked with the renewals of the quintessential government domain, dot .GOV, ha...
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January 11, 2019 DomainGang
.Gov, .gov domains, dot .GOV, Parody news