- The recent (Nov '24) mishap from Mattel printing a p*rn site on their Wicked dolls: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gz91pp5llo
- Or the numerous 'Click Here' or unreasonable long (e.g. https://example.gov.uk/some/sub/site/dGhlbi9hL3JlYWxseS9sb25...) that have appeared in UK government or NHS leaflets.
Who are you doing this for? All the small children on HN who will be scandalized reading the word "porn" but are safe so long as the "o" is censored with an asterisk?
Or their autocorrect has now learnt to respell it anyways.
Or, they didn’t really spend hours debating the pros and cons of using either spelling and just went with whatever felt ok at the time.
But why choose generosity when one can choose snarky ass instead.
Thus, availability and price are somewhat undefined when dealing with ccTLD's. As a customer you may also be fairly protected from knowing the why or how.
Yes but how do you know you've resolved the right thing, it's still vulnerable to a compromise of another TLD.
`.bs` is the best TLD since the one that made `jabber.at` possible.
I don't get it. http://www.esteuern.bs/ is not opening.
In which sense 'has to buy'?
Geofencing is a typical techie "solution" that solves nothing and only brings headache to people.
A "detour"? It's just a lookup in a database to resolve a name to an IP address. Unlikely that any person or any piece of technology in the Bahamas has anything to do with a Swiss person going to that website.
Maybe the article should have clarified that a little better. Now people will actually worry about their data, while none of it will even leave the country, if the server is domestic.
Surely you mean g*sh?
I have no issue with the youth coming up with new slang or changing the definitions of words that are no longer as relevant as they once were. As you say, language evolves like that. But when the changes to language are being top-down forced by megacorps so they can more effectively target ads to children, that's when I want them burned in fire. I'm honestly surprised at just how justified I feel in being mean to the people who propagate this bullshit.
It's an entire section with a clearly worded title in bold:
Registration is still ongoing
At the moment, the incorrect address still leads nowhere, as the registration of the domain in the Bahamas has only just been applied for, as Weber told the Tages-Anzeiger newspaper. As soon as the registration is completed, the incorrect URL will be redirected to the correct one for the Canton of Basel-Stadt.
Also as of 2025-02-06 http://www.esteuern.bs/ is still not working.
A week to (not) deliver a simple redirect is not something I would call 'has to buy' or 'is still ongoing'. It's 'failed to do a basic task' and 'continuing to fail to redirect'. I have reasons to think no one even tried to do anything beside press releases.
Aside, do you also get angry about the use of the words coke, hoover, sellotape, etc?
Yes. I've considered that and decided it isn't.
> do you also get angry about the use of the words coke, hoover, sellotape, etc?
No.