Government URLs that don't end in .gov

Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by granzymes on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:09PM (#36840911)

Country calling codes date from the 60s and yet the US (and Canada?) are still +1.

The real answer is that it’s way too much work to change now, so it will probably continue indefinitely unless a new system supplants the current internet.

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Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by kelnos on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:24PM (#36841070)

That's silly; registering new domain names and putting redirects in place is much simpler than changing a freakin' country code.

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Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by eganist on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:40PM (#36841208)

> That's silly; registering new domain names and putting redirects in place is much simpler than changing a freakin' country code.

Cool, here's a $50,000 firm fixed contract for you to go fix all the hardcoded .gov references in every single federal website, knowing how many of them will fail to handle redirects gracefully.

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Re:Government URLs that don't end in .gov by cscurmudgeon on Sunday July 23, 2023 @07:48PM (#36841280)

Why is the change needed?

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