What do you do if an online tackle you printed on a bodily flyer comprises a typo, and also you ship that flyer to greater than 100,000 households? Well, should you’re the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-Stadt, you purchase the area that comprises the typo, and create a redirect to the right URL.
As Swiss information outlet SRF experiences, the Basel tax administration printed fliers that have been supposed to incorporate a URL to file taxes on-line. However, the Swiss nation code top-level area (ccTLD) of “.ch” was omitted, leaving simply the Basel-Stadt suffix of “.bs” — which simply occurs to be the ccTLD of the Bahamas.
A spokesperson for Basel-Stadt’s division of finance advised SRF that it will price the equal of round $100,000 to print and ship out a batch of recent flyers, so it was a no brainer to fork out $1,000 to manage the brand new area as an alternative.
The new URL with redirect isn’t stay but, as it can apparently take some time for the registration course of to conclude.
