I (accidentally) Started "hosting" a Government Website
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So I decided to see how generic a name I could claim.
My first try, "aws", failed. But the second one, "gov", succeeded.
So now, technically speaking, I "host" a government website: http://gov.s3-website-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/
If anyone’s thinking of founding a new country, let me know - I already have the hosting sorted.
The author accidentally claimed an S3 bucket named 'gov' and now hosts a technically valid government website URL, sparking a lighthearted discussion about domain name availability and potential security implications.
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I think "government" needs the quotes here far more than "host" does. Why would anyone believe that this address is for an official government website of any particular country? I mean, it ends in .com....