> "..but nobody i know of uses .gov except the US." > > Actually here in Australia we use .au as well as .edu and .gov. My > daughter's email addy domain is: @austin.unimelb.edu.au Well, true, but what the original respondent is talking about is using '.gov' as a suffix - we use '.gov' as an infix and '.au' as a suffix. The point is that the domain registrar for the '.gov' domain will not accept non-US government agencies or companies trying to register a name through them. Thank <insert deity> for that. Paul