I have the exact same note with my government. They moved everything to one unified government.example site, all departments on it etc. Quite nice.
Then, over the years, little ‘marketing’/‘awareness’/‘speciality’ sites like governmentdrivesafe.example or governmentvaccines.example, or even governmentgetabusehelp.example (it’s actually a similar initialsm, but it’s a place with resources for people to get help), etc started popping up.
So many of these and all that work they did to have one ‘front’ or trusted place to visit is gone? Anyone can register a government<something>.example (they chose a public TLD)… just baffles me honestly. New content from department still appears on their “flagship” site, but also these one offs pop up as well.
They also have, and use, a url shortening service on their main domain (e.g. government.example/{taxes,vehicles,covid} redirects to the longer link on government.example) but instead some departments opt to register domains instead.
At least in FB’s case those might not be for their user’s use (the obscure fb<xyz>.example domains>)?
Has anyone else seen something like this in their local area?
Then, over the years, little ‘marketing’/‘awareness’/‘speciality’ sites like governmentdrivesafe.example or governmentvaccines.example, or even governmentgetabusehelp.example (it’s actually a similar initialsm, but it’s a place with resources for people to get help), etc started popping up.
So many of these and all that work they did to have one ‘front’ or trusted place to visit is gone? Anyone can register a government<something>.example (they chose a public TLD)… just baffles me honestly. New content from department still appears on their “flagship” site, but also these one offs pop up as well.
They also have, and use, a url shortening service on their main domain (e.g. government.example/{taxes,vehicles,covid} redirects to the longer link on government.example) but instead some departments opt to register domains instead.
At least in FB’s case those might not be for their user’s use (the obscure fb<xyz>.example domains>)?
Has anyone else seen something like this in their local area?