Marty
05-01-2002, 12:27 PM
Dept of Interior - Native Sovereign Nation Web-Suffix (http://www.doi.gov/news/020426.html)
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The General Services Administration is the government agency that grants the .gov domain name suffix to government entities. Suffixes are used to identify the function of a specific organization such as .com representing a commercial venture, .org for organization, usually a non-profit, and .gov meaning a Federal government entity. A tribe's domain name suffix will include a dash, the letters nsn and the .gov designation. The nsn acronym stands for native sovereign nation, when combined with http://www.and the tribe's name it will look like, http://www.tribesname-nsn.gov.
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The General Services Administration is the government agency that grants the .gov domain name suffix to government entities. Suffixes are used to identify the function of a specific organization such as .com representing a commercial venture, .org for organization, usually a non-profit, and .gov meaning a Federal government entity. A tribe's domain name suffix will include a dash, the letters nsn and the .gov designation. The nsn acronym stands for native sovereign nation, when combined with http://www.and the tribe's name it will look like, http://www.tribesname-nsn.gov.