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Federal Government Inadvertently Deleted Ca.Gov

Posted by samzenpus on from the did-you-need-that dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A Network World reader whose brother works for a California state agency forwarded me an e-mail alert that his brother received: "The Department of Technology Services (DTS) has notified us that the Federal Government inadvertently deleted the CA.GOV domain. As the evening progresses you may experience an impact in your ability to access some Web sites and exchange e-mail. DTS is working with their federal counterparts to restore service as quickly as possible but service may not be restored until tomorrow morning.""

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  1. Terrorists .... by snoggeramus · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Terrorists we can handle. What really scares is an attack of the stupids.

    1. Re:Terrorists .... by petsounds · · Score: 1, Insightful

      What do you mean? We are besieged by them every day! They have infiltrated the highest levels of our government and the lowest levels of bureaucracy. We live in dangerous times, my friend.

    2. Re:Terrorists .... by serge587 · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Humanity has been under siege since its inception.

  2. Re:Simple to fix? by cez · · Score: 2, Insightful

    doesn't sound like they deleted it to me, more like they routed it to nowhere, and propagated that route across the network and root DNS servers...

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  3. If only... by feepness · · Score: 4, Insightful

    If only these idiots were running more of my life.

    1. Re:If only... by feepness · · Score: 2, Insightful

      Microsoft doesn't put me in jail if I don't buy their product.

  4. Re:Sorry by Dachannien · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to stupidity.

  5. Re:Sorry by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    How do you accidently delete an entire domain?

    You're grossly over-estimating the competence of the federal government. The only thing surprising about this is that they didn't delete the entire .gov domain.

  6. Re:Why not just use the .ca TLD? by pembo13 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Why not use ca.us ?

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  7. California fell off the edge of the internet by peektwice · · Score: 1, Insightful

    When I was a small child, I was told by other children that one day, California would have a large enough earthquake to fall off the western edge of the U.S. In more recent years, I have come to believe that politically speaking, California has fallen off the left edge of the U.S.
    It appears that at least metaphorically, and temporarily, this falling off of the rest of the world has finally happened. California fell (or was pushed) off the internet.

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    1. Re:California fell off the edge of the internet by Fulcrum+of+Evil · · Score: 1, Insightful

      It's not that CA is so far to the left, it's that the rest of the country is way off to the right.

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  8. Re:Sorry by untaken_name · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Malice gets you fired, while stupidity gets excused and forgiven. Which would you prefer your actions to be seen as?

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  9. Re:Sorry by hawks5999 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.

  10. States shouldn't be using .gov by base3 · · Score: 2, Insightful

    California should be using state.ca.us anyway--then they wouldn't have had a problem. .gov is intended for the U.S. federal government.

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