§ 101-35.710 - What registration services are available through GSA?

(a) The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Department of Commerce, has designated GSA as the Government Open Systems Interconnection Profile (GOSIP) Address Registration Authority for unique naming assignments of X.400 Private Management Domains (PRMD), X.500 Organizational Units (OU), and Network Service Access Point (NSAP) Administrative Authority Identifiers (AAI). GOSIP registration is limited to Government agencies, with the exception of NSAP AAIs, which may be used by commercial organizations to identify private asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) networks.

(b) For purposes of global interoperability, GSA will operate an X.500/LDAP Directory Service at the “C=US” level and at the “O=U.S. Government” level. Federal agencies may link operational directories to the “O=U.S. Government” level and commercial organizations may link to the “C=US” level in accordance with the fees set forth in § 101-35.704.

(c) The National Science Foundation (NSF) has delegated to GSA the authority to manage and administer the .GOV Internet domain. GSA provides second-level domain registrations in the GOV domain (e.g., <Agency>.gov). Similarly, GSA provides third-level domain registrations in the “fed.us” domain under authority of the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA). Internet registration services are limited to Federal, State, and local Government organizations. GSA is not responsible for and will not charge fees for any further delegation of a domain name assigned to an agency. For example, the U.S. Department of the Treasury has registered “ustreas.gov,” but registrations such as “irs.ustreas.gov” would be the responsibility of the domain manager for Treasury.