Dot-Gov Reform Effort Making Progress

The push to drastically reduce the number of government-run websites is making quiet progress.

The list of all top-level federal Web domains posted to Data.gov -- which has hovered around 1,650 for more than a month -- dropped to 1,551 over the weekend. About 280 of the remaining sites are listed as redirects from other dot-govs. The General Services Administration, which runs the government's dot-gov reform effort, regularly updates the Data.gov list when agencies report they've shut down or redirected new sites, a GSA spokesman said, but agencies don't report to GSA on a regular schedule, so information on the site can lag.