[rvnx]

Meh joke considering this was paid on public money.

Same as choosing to spend xxx,xxx USD to have .cern when using subdomains would have worked too (and caused less validation / compatibility issues).

[fnands]

They got the intern to write a funny post. Probably took them an hour and it drums up a bit of good press for the Hi-Lumi LHC.

Money well spent if you ask me.

[steve1977]

As a tax payer in one of the member states, I approve of this joke.

[kryptiskt]

The Web is a side project of CERN, they should have gotten a comped top-level domain by rights.

[mrguyorama]

This page cost taxpayers like 100 Euros maybe. How much money do you think scientists actually make? How much money and effort do you think it takes to post a blog article with a couple paragraphs of text and an image?