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by kelnos 1062 days ago
That's silly; registering new domain names and putting redirects in place is much simpler than changing a freakin' country code.
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> That's silly; registering new domain names and putting redirects in place is much simpler than changing a freakin' country code.

Cool, here's a $50,000 firm fixed contract for you to go fix all the hardcoded .gov references in every single federal website, knowing how many of them will fail to handle redirects gracefully.

Why is the change needed?