The Swiss tax authority forced to buy a domain Bahams name after URL typo

What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo and send this flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you are the Swiss Canton (“Status”) of Basel-StadYou buy a domain that contains a typo and create a redirection to the correct URL.

Like a Swiss newsletter Srf Reports, the Basel Administration of Printed Flyers, which had to include a URL for taxes online. However, the Swiss code of the highest (CCTLD) code of “.ch” was missed, leaving only the Basel-Stadt suffix from “.b” that just happens to be the CCTLD of the Bahamas.

A spokesman for the Basel-Stad Ministry of Finance told SRF that it would cost the equivalent of about $ 100,000 to print and send a batch of new leaflets, so instead it is not a brain to divide $ 1,000 to administer the new domain.

The new Redirect URL is still out of live, as it will obviously take a little time to complete the registration process.