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Swiss Tax Authority Forced To Buy Bahamas Domain Name After URL Typo
Saturday February 1, 2025. 12:00 AM , from Slashdot
The Swiss canton ('state') of Basel-Stadt fixed a tax flyer typo by buying the incorrect domain and setting up a redirect, avoiding a $100,000 reprint cost. TechCrunch reports: As Swiss news outlet SRF reports, the Basel tax administration printed fliers that were supposed to include a URL to file taxes online. However, the Swiss country code top-level domain (ccTLD) of '.ch' was omitted, leaving just the Basel-Stadt suffix of '.bs' -- which just happens to be the ccTLD of the Bahamas.
A spokesperson for Basel-Stadt's department of finance told SRF that it would cost the equivalent of around $100,000 to print and send out a batch of new flyers, so it was a no-brainer to fork out $1,000 to administer the new domain instead. Read more of this story at Slashdot.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/2237225/swiss-tax-authority-forced-to-buy-bahamas-domain-na...
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