It should be easy to identify governments on the internet.
.gov is the top-level domain for US-based government organizations.
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April 27th, 2021: .gov domains are available at no cost to qualifying U.S.-based government organizations. We’ve also updated the requirements to obtain and maintain a .gov domain.
March 8, 2021: The .gov top-level domain is moving to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. See our announcement.
June 21, 2020: We announced our intent to preload the .gov TLD in the future.