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closewith 3 hours ago

That's the most common approach globally. Like most countries, the Dutch Government use .gov.nl.

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djaro 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It exists, but the vast majority of government services dont use it (i.e. taxes are just done through belastingdienst.nl).

	▲	closewith an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Yes, which I think is also very common, but what Wikipedia was referring to is that there's no official second-level domain for Government, unlike say gov.br or gov.uk). Gov.nl is just a domain owned by the Dutch Government, like gov.ie or belgium.be.

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fc417fc802 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Ah. Just a blatant inaccuracy on wikipedia I take it. That does make a bit more sense.

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robin_reala 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Yep. gov.nl is in the PSL[1] and there are plenty of used subdomains (e.g. https://business.gov.nl/)

[1] https://publicsuffix.org/list/public_suffix_list.dat

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djaro 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

As far as I can tell .gov.nl is only used for pages aimed at i.e. expats and businesses. Most services dutch people use simply have a .nl page like the digital id or filing taxes.

	▲	jurgenburgen 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This makes sense because gov is anglocentric and would make the URLs sound weird in non-English countries.