Government Website

Is it legal to have a website with a government department name.

[cayetanob]

A year ago I bought a domain called <snip>, and I already designed the website and send it to dmoz, where it was accepted and to yahoo directory also.

Before continuing working on it, I would like to know if is legal to have this domain? or it belongs to the mexican government?. Is there any way I can protect my domain?

[edited by: engine at 6:17 pm (utc) on May 17, 2005]
[edit reason] no specific domains, thanks. [/edit]

[mmmwowmmm]

I've seen a couple of websites that do this. One of them is a pretty major site that spoofs the Whitehouse. It is clearly a spoof, but it is designed to look like a real government web-site. I think any ownership issues would only come up about content, not the domain name. That's my guess.

[hunderdown]

You've got a domain name that should/could belong to a Mexican government agency? I'd get some legal advice before spending any time and money developing it. What if there is some provision under international domain name regulation for government entities to have automatic title for certain kinds of URLs?