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Another addition to their 'Hall of Flame' might be the British Monarchy. A couple of weeks ago, they broke every existing URI when they moved from www.royal.gov
by pidg 10y ago
Another addition to their 'Hall of Flame' might be the British Monarchy. A couple of weeks ago, they broke every existing URI when they moved from www.royal.gov.uk to www.royal.uk. Every URL from the old domain gets redirected to the root of the new site.
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aroyal.gov.uk https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=site%3Aroyal.gov.uk
- _puk 10y agoNever fear, the Daily Mail will surely make a call to oust the Monarchy on this basis.. You'd think ICANN would have a .monarchy TLD by now mailto:liz@british.monarchy
- coldtea 10y ago>Never fear, the Daily Mail will surely make a call to oust the Monarchy on this basis.. On this basis? The year being 2016, and those being "blue blooded" privileged rulers is not enough?
- _puk 10y agoApologies, I wasn't trying to infer an opinion either way. More an opinion that the decision to provide the worst possible UX has a likelihood of being highlighted by the populist media.
- philjohn 10y agoYou're thinking of the Guardian ... the DM love the royals.
- _puk 10y agohah, I regret the comment either way now!
- iand 10y agoYou'll be pleased to learn that the National Archives keeps an archive of all UK government sites, e.g. http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403203037/http://www.royal.gov.uk/Links/Royal.aspx http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/20130403203037/htt... See http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/ http://nationalarchives.gov.uk/webarchive/