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As far as I can tell .gov.nl is only used for pages aimed at i.e. expats and businesses. Most services dutch people use simply have a .nl page like the digital id or filing taxes.

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This makes sense because gov is anglocentric and would make the URLs sound weird in non-English countries.

And overheid.nl is their government site for that reason.

There’s no reason they couldn’t have picked a different second-level suffix. Spanish-speaking countries use e.g. .gob.mx, France uses .gouv.fr.

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