List of Columbus government domain names

Where?

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What?

This is a list of website domain names which meet the following criteria:

• Registration: The domain must be registered by "The City of Columbus", meaning:
  • the government of the City of Columbus,
  • or a department or subdivision or agency thereof,
  • or the City Council or office thereof,
  • or a contractor or subcontractor on behalf of "The City of Columbus"
  • excluding independent agencies that overlap with the boundaries of the City of Columbus but whose existence is not engendered in Columbus' municipal code, such as:
    • organizations established or chartered under state law, such as the Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission, Metro Parks, the Central Ohio Transit Agency,and Columbus City Schools
    • organizations funded by, but not chartered by, the City of Columbus
• Purpose: The domain must be for a service, program, or entity that is relevant to Columbus, but not if Columbus is only one of the municipalities relevant to that program.
• Domain: The domain name must be an effective second-level domain, meaning that it consists of a domain name plus an effective top-level domain, such as columbus.gov. This excludes:
  • Columbus-specific subdomains of third-party domains, such as dpu.360water.com and zone-in-columbus.hub.arcgis.com
  • Subdomains of Columbus-registered domains, such as gis.columbus.gov and portal.columgus.gov

Why?

Because I saw a bunch of random URLs used in Columbus' official communiques, and got curious.