Douglas County moving to .GOV to improve identity, security

Douglas County’s IT Department will begin migrating services to a new dgcoks.gov domain in May.

Why move to .GOV? It is easier to identify governments on the Internet and using a .GOV domain shows the website is an official government entity. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) sponsors .GOV and makes it available solely to U.S.-based government organizations and publicly controlled entities.

Additionally, using .GOV increases security:

• Multifactor Authentication is enforced on all accounts in the .gov registrar, different than commercial registrars.
• .GOV requires browsers to only use a secure HTTPS connection with our website. This protects our visitors’ privacy and ensures the content we publish is exactly what’s received.

Douglas County is planning to convert county email addresses to @dgcoks.gov in stages starting May 13 and finishing June 7.  The county website will change to www.dgcoks.gov on May 28.

What does this mean for our community and staff? Nothing. 

All of the saved links to www.dgcoks.gov and its variations will be directed to the appropriate www.dgcoks.gov destination when you attempt to access the site.  Messages sent to current email addresses will be forwarded to the appropriate destination.