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Select Board authorizes conversion of town website and emails to .gov domain; Susan named contact
Summary
The Select Board voted unanimously to begin the process of converting kingstonnh.org to a .gov domain using a New Hampshire program and Block 5 support; staff member Susan agreed to serve as the town contact for the transition, which could take about six weeks for approval and carries no direct cost to the town.
The Kingston Select Board on June 2 authorized town staff to begin converting the town website and email addresses from the current .org domain to a .gov domain and named Susan as the town contact to manage the process.
Susan told the board she had spoken with Block 5 support and confirmed that New Hampshire offers a program to provide .gov domains at no cost to municipalities. She said Block 5 preferred to handle the technical work and that the process requires an application, two verifiers and, once submitted, can take about six weeks for approval. "Obtaining a .gov domain is a tightly controlled process, and it makes hacking much harder to do," Susan said, explaining the security benefit in her memo to the board.
Board members discussed the operational requirements: each employee's email account needs to be switched individually, and someone from the town must be available to respond during the process. Susan volunteered to be the point person and the board accepted that offer.
A motion to authorize Susan to start the conversion was moved and seconded; the board approved the measure unanimously. The conversion is expected to have no direct cost to the town; the primary commitments are staff time for account transitions and verification paperwork. The board agreed to proceed during the summer months to minimize disruption.
