... .gov registrar - part of the Government Services Administration - inquiring whether Obama's transition site change dot gov was within the federal rules for .gov domain names. They indicated it was.
However, the documents here - obtained through a FOIA request - indicate that "strings were pulled" and an exception was made at least regarding the domain name. It was originally considered too...
... Obama's change dot gov is, per the Government Services Administration, legal. A few have speculated that it might be operating outside the letter of the law due to the fact that it's hosted at the private Blue State Digital and has non-governmental privacy policies and the like.
The GSA statement (below), while persuasive, is just their opinion and it still seems a bit odd to have a .gov site...