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GSA misled me: exception was made for change.gov - 12/20/08
Earlier this month I sent an email to the .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.
GSA says Change.gov is a legal, "hybrid" site - 12/11/08
Barack 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 that has a privacy policy ripped from various candidates' websites.
Here's the (probably boilerplate) email that registrar *at* dotgov.gov recently sent me in response to my inquiry:
www.Change...