4 ms·
I got an official email from New York State's Office Of The Comptroller with a link to osc.state.ny.us. It came from an email address @osc.ny.gov. I don't under
by remram 3y ago
I got an official email from New York State's Office Of The Comptroller with a link to osc.state.ny.us. It came from an email address @osc.ny.gov. I don't understand why they couldn't use an official TLD in the URL too.
- bobthepanda 3y ago.nyc is also a government TLD.
- remram 3y agoNot true, see https://www.ownit.nyc/ https://www.ownit.nyc/
- pc86 3y agoI used to do contracting work for a state government agency (that also owned the .gov and .us domains), and they had rules about what could be hosted on .gov vs. .us that were sufficiently restrictive that I was told on the first day that we only ever deploy things to .us. Perhaps something similar exists for NY, and/or that "rule" was actually federal?
- Abekkus 3y agoI saw a similar problem at dhs. The contractors who run email & office software don’t talk with the contractors who run their web presence, on two completely separate domains. Lots of US gov orgs use way too many contracts instead of staff.
- toast0 3y agostate.$STATE.us is an official domain, too. In the before times, .gov was intended for the US Federal government, and states were expected to use space within .us. It got rather messy when the Feds started letting states get delegations under .gov and .us was opened to registration of second level domains and new multilevel delegates became discouraged or disallowed.
- remram 3y agostate.ny.us and www.state.ny.us don't even resolve though. What a mess. The net result is that the Comptroller's new program trying to get everyone their missing funds is sending email that exclusively arrive in people's spam folders.