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What do you do if a WWW address you printed on a physical flyer check a typo , and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 household ? Well , if you ’re the Swiss Kuangchou ( “ DoS ” ) ofBasel - Stadt , you purchase the knowledge domain that contains the literal error , and create a redirect to the right universal resource locator .
As Swiss news outletSRFreports , the Basel tax administration printed aviator that were supposed to let in a uniform resource locator to lodge taxes online . However , the Swiss commonwealth computer code top - level orbit ( ccTLD ) of “ .ch ” was except , give just the Basel - Stadt suffix of “ .bs ” — which just happens to be the ccTLD of the Bahamas .
A spokesperson for Basel - Stadt ’s department of finance told SRF that it would cost the equivalent of around $ 100,000 to publish and place out a flock of new aviator , so it was a no - brainer to pitchfork out $ 1,000 to administrate the Modern domain rather .
The new URL with redirect is n’t hot yet , as it will apparently take a small time for the enrolment process to resolve .
