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In 2023 operations for the .GOV TLD transitioned from Verisign to Cloudflare

by surteen on 2/10/24, 1:46 PM with 66 comments

• by NicoJuicy on 2/10/24, 2:22 PM

  There's a very interesting document by Cloudflare linked to it that describes why this was not your typical "change nameserver and done" transition:

  https://indico.dns-oarc.net/event/48/contributions/1038/atta...

• by omoikane on 2/10/24, 6:15 PM

  I didn't even know .gov changed operators until this news, but looks like there was an earlier news that said it would happen:

  https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34403055 - Verisign Loses Prestige .Gov Contract to Cloudflare (2023-01-16)

• by jcsnv on 2/10/24, 8:29 PM

  Looks like it was for ~$7.2mm - https://sam.gov/opp/84b13553be9643f6bd143480a4567352/view

• by deadbabe on 2/10/24, 1:57 PM

  Is Cloudflare becoming increasingly powerful?

• by cheekibreeki2 on 2/10/24, 11:17 PM

  Verisign is evil, good for cloudflare.

• by overstay8930 on 2/10/24, 2:18 PM

  It is shocking how few people understand how DNS works

• by tiffanyh on 2/10/24, 2:06 PM

  I can only imagine conspiracy theories flying around about government partnership with Cloudflare.

• by stefan_ on 2/10/24, 2:11 PM

  Does this mean every GOV page will now have the "pretend security check" interstitial that litter just about every page now? How do you even describe it, it's like they are vandalising the internet.