[sybercecurity]

The .gov TLD was only for the Federal government in the past, it was opened up later to state/local governments. By then, some had already had <something>.<state>.us, or some other TLD. Most probably thought it was too troublesome to migrate over. That and the fees were more than any other gTLD (though not now).

[xattt]

Canadian domain names in the 90s also followed this newsgroup-like syntax: <website>.<city>.<province>.ca

At least one site (transit.toronto.on.ca) still has an active domain in that format, even though it’s not operationally-related by the City of Toronto.

It’s quaint that folks wanted to root their web presence in their physical world.

[LorenzoGood]

Like ouac.on.ca.

[xattt]

Tangential: toronto.edu redirects to U of T.

Major early 1990s vibes and the woody smell of the graduate computer labs.

[LorenzoGood]

Hopefully I get to go to Toronto lol.