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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.

I see no evidence they are down. I can get to every .gov I can think of to spot check. They’re removing parts of many.

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post #25

I 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.

I did too; browser tools said a CSP mixup had blocked their Bootstrap CDN. Looked like a mistake, not the entire site being gone.

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https://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…

One reason some sites used to be stuck with this configuration is that you can CNAME a www subdomain to a CDN but you can't CNAME your eTLD+1 without also affecting your other records (MX/etc).

There have been various solutions to this problem like ALIAS records, but perhaps they never upgraded.

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