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> fultongrandjury.com, which I at first thought would be an official government website Are you being straight serious here, or are you doing a rhetoric thing
by lupusreal 2y ago
> fultongrandjury.com, which I at first thought would be an official government website
Are you being straight serious here, or are you doing a rhetoric thing where "I was confused" is just a shorthand for "I think some people might plausibly be confused"?
I could see some people who aren't net-saavy thinking that domain looks like a government website, but I'm surprised that anybody here might see a .com like that and think it an official anything. Official government websites in America almost always use a .gov, and when they don't they usually have some goofy long string of subdomains like www.courts.state.md.us (I'm not 100% sure that is actually official, but it's in the style government websites use and if an unofficial website used that style I'd definitely consider it an attempt to deceive people.)
- Wowfunhappy 2y agousps.com. amtrak.com. mta.info. These were just the first that came to mind. I think there are specific reasons behind each of these, but the fact is that I am used to interacting with government websites that end in .com, so it wouldn't surprise me if some county's court system also used a .com.
- Discordian93 2y agoThose are state run businesses, not exactly government agencies.
- edm0nd 2y agoUSPS is a federal government agency tho https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-postal-service https://www.usa.gov/agencies/u-s-postal-service
- MathMonkeyMan 2y agoNone of those are government websites.