Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think the source is misunderstanding changes that are definitely happening. They're scrubbing sites of specific topics (with a broad brush!), but not taking them entirely down. https://www.npr.org/sections/shots-health-news/2025/01/31/nx...
do they usually go down that long though for updates?. This seems extremely suspicious.
.gov Sites Are Offline
31–33 of 33 posts
Re: .gov Sites Are Offline
#32I suppose this was flagged because https://www.faa.gov is up. But, https://www.census.gov was down (I saw the empty skeleton of a page), then a minute later it was up. So, same thing could have happened here.
Re: .gov Sites Are Offline
#33https://www.faa.gov is up
For the longest time nasa.gov required a www subdomain to work. ( https://web.archive.org/web/20120326151831/http://blogs.nasa... ) > The answer goes back to the early 1990s, when the Internet existed – but the World Wide Web did not. NASA was on the Net very early in its history, and the nasa.gov Domain Name Servers (DNS) – the Internet's version of a phone book (OK, online directory) – handled bulletin board system…
There have been various solutions to this problem like ALIAS records, but perhaps they never upgraded.