Security researcher registers a .Gov web site with no difficulty

He(?) used a Google Voice account and apparently sailed through the process. Krebs goes on to report that 5 of the 10 largest cities in the USA do not have their names registered as .Govs! Including places like Houston and Miami, not to mention uncountable smaller government cities and municipalities.

Krebs puts forth a simply lovely scenario. Someone phantom registers Miami.gov, and on election day email blasts the city with a 'news report' that there have been multiple bombings at polling places. What does that do to election turnout?

Apparently the Department of Homeland Security is angling to take over the registration of .Govs, which I think is probably a reasonable angle. It makes sense to me for the federal government to handle the registration of government internet domains.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2019/11/its-way-too-easy-to-get-a-gov-domain-name/