The city of Merced just got a new website URL. What the change means
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- Merced transitioned its website from cityofmerced.org to cityofmerced.gov.
- The city will retain the .org domain to redirect web traffic and forward emails.
- The .gov domain, vetted by a federal agency, enhances trust and digital security.
Dot org is out and dot gov is in, for the city of Merced.
The city of Merced began transitioning to a new website URL on Wednesday. The city website will be hosted at cityofmerced.gov, instead of cityofmerced.org. All employee emails will also bear the .gov ending.
The city will maintain control of the .org site and will redirect residents to the new site and forward emails to their intended recipients.
All .gov domains are provided by the federal Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which must vet all requests. The agency wrote on its website that “.Gov helps the public identify official, trusted information”
Merced registered its old .org domain beginning in 2001. It registered the new .gov domain in 2020, according to the whois name-information database.
“Moving to a .gov domain strengthens our digital security and reinforces the trust our community places in the City of Merced,” said City Manager Scott McBride in a press release.
Dos Palos is the only other city in Merced County which uses a .gov domain, transitioning at the end of 2024.
This story was originally published July 24, 2025 at 12:07 PM.