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Swiss tax authority screws up printing fliers, has to buy the domain name for the Bahamas!
This is pretty amazing! And a bit costly.
The tax authority of the canton ('state') of Basil-Stadt didn't do a good job of proff-reding a new flyer before committing to the print run. Instead of the URL ending in .bs.ch, the .ch being Switzerland's ccTLD (country code top-level domain), the .ch was left off. .bs is the national code of the Bahamas!
It would cost approx $100,000 to reprint and remail the fliers.
The cost to buy the .bs domain from the Bahamas and administer it? About $1,000.
So the Bahamas ccTLD is now administered by a Swiss canton's tax authority!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/swiss-tax-authority-forced-to-buy-bahamas-domain-name-after-url-typo/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/2237225/swiss-tax-authority-forced-to-buy-bahamas-domain-name-after-url-typo
If you'd like to see the original flyer with typo, it's viewable here:
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/fehler-mit-folgen-basler-steuerverwaltung-muss-domain-auf-den-bahamas-kaufen
The tax authority of the canton ('state') of Basil-Stadt didn't do a good job of proff-reding a new flyer before committing to the print run. Instead of the URL ending in .bs.ch, the .ch being Switzerland's ccTLD (country code top-level domain), the .ch was left off. .bs is the national code of the Bahamas!
It would cost approx $100,000 to reprint and remail the fliers.
The cost to buy the .bs domain from the Bahamas and administer it? About $1,000.
So the Bahamas ccTLD is now administered by a Swiss canton's tax authority!
https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/31/swiss-tax-authority-forced-to-buy-bahamas-domain-name-after-url-typo/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/31/2237225/swiss-tax-authority-forced-to-buy-bahamas-domain-name-after-url-typo
If you'd like to see the original flyer with typo, it's viewable here:
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/fehler-mit-folgen-basler-steuerverwaltung-muss-domain-auf-den-bahamas-kaufen