Government email filter: find .gov, .gov.uk and .mil addresses
In short: Upload a list with an Email column. Addresses on .gov, .mil, gov.xx, gob.xx, gouv.xx, go.xx and europa.eu domains are tagged by ending, and you download the government rows, the rest, or the whole list. Limit: It reads the end of the domain; it does not know which bodies are public.
Upload the list and the tool reads the domain of every address. It tags .gov and .mil, country endings such as gov.uk, gob.mx and gouv.fr, go.jp-style endings, gc.ca and europa.eu, then lets you download the government rows, the rest, or the whole list with a group column. It reads the text of the domain only.
Price: this tool is free. Checking a whole email list is from $9/mo, and the first 100 checks are free with Google, no card. Check your list free nowSee pricing
Sample result
Six example rows: 5 government addresses found and 1 other.
- Government found
- 5
- Rows read
- 6
- Endings found
- 5
What this means for you
Each government address is tagged with the domain ending it was found on.
- Plain .gov and .mil
- gov, gob, gouv and go endings
- gc.ca and europa.eu
- Government rows or the rest
- Government
- Domain ending
- Lead list
By SimpleVerifier Team · Last updated · Runs in your browser; nothing you paste is sent to us
Sorted by domain, now check which mailboxes exist.
- Download the rows you want to keep, or use the check button under the result.
- Upload or paste it at /verify. Every address gets a live mailbox check, and the first 100 email checks are free with a Google sign-in, no card.
How do I filter government emails from a list?
- Upload the .xlsx or CSV, or paste the cells with the header row first. It needs an Email column.
- Read the counts and the table of endings found.
- Download the government addresses, the list without them, or the whole list with government_group and government_note columns added.
- Check the rows you keep before you send.
Example
- You enter
- Example list of six addresses: agency.example.gov, dept.example.gov.uk, example.gob.mx, example.gouv.fr, base.example.mil and example.com.
- You get
- Six rows read: 5 government addresses and 1 other. One each is found on .gov, gov.uk, gob.mx, gouv.fr and .mil; example.com is not found.
- Limits
- Runs in your browser and reads the domain text only.
Which domains does it count as government?
A domain ending in .gov or .mil; gov, govt, gob, gouv or mil as the second-level label under a two-letter country ending (gov.uk, govt.nz, gob.mx, gouv.fr); go or gv under a country ending with a name in front (example.go.jp); gc.ca; and europa.eu. Subdomains count, so an agency under a department domain is read the same way.
Why split government addresses from a lead list?
Public-sector buyers often follow different buying rules and are usually a separate campaign. Some sellers must leave them out, and others sell only to them. Tagging the rows first lets you route each group.
Pair it with the role-based email filter, since public offices use shared inboxes heavily.
What does it not find?
A public body on an ordinary .com, .org or .de domain is not found, and some countries use other endings that are not on the list. State and local bodies in the US that use .us, .org or .com names are not found either. The tool reads text only and looks nothing up.
Who uses this tool, and for what?
- Cold email senders
- Keep public-sector rows out of a commercial campaign, or pull them into their own.
- Sales ops
- Tag government leads in a mixed export before routing them.
- Compliance teams
- Find the rows that need a separate sending rule.
What can’t this tool tell you?
- It reads the end of the domain; it does not know which bodies are public.
- Public bodies on .com, .org and other ordinary domains are not found.
- Only the endings listed on the page are read.
- A government ending says nothing about whether the mailbox still works.
Common questions
- Does it find .gov.uk and .gov.au addresses?
- Yes, and gob, gouv and govt endings under a country ending.
- Does it find military addresses?
- Yes. .mil is its own group, and mil under a country ending is read as government.
- Does it find city and county addresses?
- Only when they sit on one of the listed endings. Many local bodies use ordinary domains.
- Does a .gov address mean a person can be contacted?
- No. The tool reads the domain only. Check the addresses before you send.
- Can I keep the government rows and drop the rest?
- Yes. Download the government addresses file for just those rows.
- Is my list uploaded anywhere?
- No. It is read in your browser.
A tidy list can still be full of dead addresses.
Extracting, deduplicating and syntax checks all work on the text of an address. None of them can tell whether the mailbox exists. Only the server that hosts it can answer that, through an SMTP check, and that is what the paid product does.
- Upload the cleaned file as it is: CSVs up to 100,000 rows
- A real SMTP mailbox check on every row, with catch-all detection
- Small list? Starter at $9/mo covers 2,500 emails a month, cancel anytime
Plans from $9 a month, cancel anytime, no contract. Sign in with Google and your first 100 email checks are free, no card. The free tools stay free either way.