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All governments in the U. S. are allowed to apply for delegations in < tt > gov </ tt >, such as atlantaga. gov for the city of Atlanta, loudoun. gov for the county of Loudoun, Virginia and georgia. gov for the U. S. state of Georgia.

This was not always true ; under an earlier policy, only federal agencies were allowed to use the domain, and agencies beneath cabinet level were required to use subdomains of their parent agency.

There is a lack of consistency in addresses of state and local government sites, with some using < tt > gov </ tt >, some < tt > us </ tt >, some using both ( the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania uses www. pa. gov, www. pennsylvania. gov and www. state. pa. us for the same web site ) and still others in com, org or other TLDs.