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jurgenburgentoday at 10:31 AM2 repliesview on HN

This makes sense because gov is anglocentric and would make the URLs sound weird in non-English countries.


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raframtoday at 11:50 AM

There’s no reason they couldn’t have picked a different second-level suffix. Spanish-speaking countries use e.g. .gob.mx, France uses .gouv.fr.

closewithtoday at 11:28 AM

And overheid.nl is their government site for that reason.