The list of domains used by the federal government
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- A task force named by outgoing federal chief information officer Vivek Kundra will consolidate the domains used by the government over the next several months in order to clean up its web presence, according to a report by NextGov on Tuesday.
According to the report, The White House released a list of 1,759 top-level federal domains on Tuesday. The number is under the 2,000 domain mark that was estimated to exist when a three-month freeze on new government websites was ordered in June.
The federal government has been trimming the fat in its IT systems with a data center consolidation initiative (also led by Kundra) as well as a push towards cloud infrastructures. With Kundra set to leave his post in August, some worried that these initiatives would gather dust but it appears he is putting support in place to avoid this.
Made up of 17 people, the task force will streamline operations and improve customer service through domain consolidation. Kundra says the task force will take input from agencies and the public. By September 12, federal agencies are required to identify websites they can consolidate or get rid of completely, the report says.
According to the report, White House officials have estimated the top level .gov domains house approximately 24,000 individual websites and subsites. Officials say many of the domains are duplicates or outdated.
The websites got out of hand in the 1990s when agencies or independent boards built separate sites for each new project or initiative, according to the report.
After the website freeze was announced, the White House blogged about an idea to have a single US government domain with all subsites incorporated into it. On Tuesday, Kundra said this was by no means the final decision.
Last month, ICANN approved a plan to increase the top-level domains to include almost any word in any language.
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According to the report, The White House released a list of 1,759 top-level federal domains on Tuesday. The number is under the 2,000 domain mark that was estimated to exist when a three-month freeze on new government websites was ordered in June.
The federal government has been trimming the fat in its IT systems with a data center consolidation initiative (also led by Kundra) as well as a push towards cloud infrastructures. With Kundra set to leave his post in August, some worried that these initiatives would gather dust but it appears he is putting support in place to avoid this.
Made up of 17 people, the task force will streamline operations and improve customer service through domain consolidation. Kundra says the task force will take input from agencies and the public. By September 12, federal agencies are required to identify websites they can consolidate or get rid of completely, the report says.
According to the report, White House officials have estimated the top level .gov domains house approximately 24,000 individual websites and subsites. Officials say many of the domains are duplicates or outdated.
The websites got out of hand in the 1990s when agencies or independent boards built separate sites for each new project or initiative, according to the report.
After the website freeze was announced, the White House blogged about an idea to have a single US government domain with all subsites incorporated into it. On Tuesday, Kundra said this was by no means the final decision.
Last month, ICANN approved a plan to increase the top-level domains to include almost any word in any language.
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