.gov

.gov (derived from the word government) is a generic top-level domain (gTLD) in the Domain Name System of the Internet. It is restricted for use by government entities in the United States. The .gov domain is administered by the General Services Administration (GSA), an independent agency of the U.S. federal government.

The U.S. is the only country that has a government-specific, top-level domain in addition to its country-code top-level domain. This is a result from the origins of the Internet as a U.S. federal government-sponsored research network. Other countries typically delegate a second-level domain for this purpose.