It should be possible to geofence it such that requests from within Switzerland are redirected to the correct address.
Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
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#12They were lucky: Not all Cantons can do it at all, and the domain is not necessarily free (e.g. eSteuern.be may be taken for German-speaking part of Belgium?)
Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
#13Still better than putting porn site address on children’s product (wicked). And they were able to buy the redirect. They should feel very lucky indeed.
I don't know/care to know how this played out. At the time I was thinking that if I was the owner of 'wicked.com' I would change my landing page and put a split-screen with one half linking to the toy (and away from the adult material), and to the other half a respectful/non-pornographic link for 'further in to my own adult material', perhaps adding a couple more hoops to minimize innocent souls being damaged.
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#14.co.uk solved this looong ago
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#15.co.uk solved this looong ago
Solved what? If someone forgets the final .uk on the flyer and don't want to reprint it, they will need to buy a domain in Colombia...
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#16Ahh unchecked websites in print. Two of my favourites are:
- 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.
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#17A firm here in my city once got all of their signage printed and installed _before_ securing the social media handles they’d put on them. The Instagram username they’d opted for was actually literally impossible to register as it contained a special character. That was about six years ago. The signs are still up.
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#18.co.uk solved this looong ago
Voters in Northern Ireland younger than 45 years prefer joining Ireland than staying in the UK, which means that .uk will stop being relevant within 50 years at most, once all boomers die.
Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
#19They were lucky: Not all Cantons can do it at all, and the domain is not necessarily free (e.g. eSteuern.be may be taken for German-speaking part of Belgium?)
what is this German-speaking part of Belgium you speak of?
Re: Basel has to buy domain name in the Bahamas after mishap
#20It should be possible to geofence it such that requests from within Switzerland are redirected to the correct address.
But not everyone who wants or needs to access it will be inside Switzerland? This doesn't fix anything, it would just make the whole situation even more confusing.