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Give it a week and see how many of them are taken down in the name of "efficiency"

psd1 2y ago
The moment .gov is opened to the public, I'm squatting as many domains as I can grab. Fill your boots! It's raining marks!
- askl 2y ago
  And with your X.gov premium subscription you will get your blue checkmark and are recognized as a real government entity.
- EvanAnderson 2y ago
  I use a jokey ".gov" domain for some of my home IT stuff. I always said wistfully that I'd never actually be able to get that domain name. There's a glimmer of hope now that I actually will be able to (albeit I expect my family and I will be sent to a re-education / extermination camp before that happens).
honeybadger1 2y ago
it's a good thing to spring clean, just like it's generally a good choice to change life habits and lose weight. humans get lazy or preoccupied and need to alter the "normal" state they get into that could be unhealthy or not as productive.the government is ran by humans as well, it's no surprise that it's gotten shoddy in some areas and some shuffling and fear has been injected to correct this in government operations and spending. it won't all be fair or kosher for sure and some of the layoffs were already stated as mistakes publicly and jobs offered back to some(though not very many surprisingly). with that being said, i hope even you see a surprising amount of what has been uncovered is clearly bad?
- ChrisRR 2y ago
  I'm not sure what parts you're referring to as "clearly bad" because so far I haven't seen any examples of that. What actually seems "clearly bad" is the random stripping of funding with little to no research into the knock-on effects. The only example I've seen that is potentially is a good move is removing the penny from circulation, but of course that has its own pros and cons.
  - powerfulusers 2y ago
    i guess elon can't run companies and detect inefficiencies, voters should trust this anon internet user instead!
    - kweingar 2y ago
      Elon breaks almost every promise he makes and has constantly been proven wrong on the claims he's made in the past month. It astounds me that someone not connected to him would trust him at all
      - powerfulusers 2y ago
        [flagged]
        kweingar 2y ago
        I'm not sure what this has to do with Elon breaking most of his promises and being constantly wrong about the government he claims to be fixing
    - ChrisRR 2y ago
      I'm not american, I just genuinely haven't seen any clearly beneficial moves yet PS. Your green username gives you away
    - tombert 2y ago
      Does he actually run companies? This is a genuine question; he’s the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Boring Company, the CTO of Twitter, and the owner of several more companies. If he’s running five or more companies, and trying to run a government department, how involved can he actually be with running any individual one? They can’t all be full time jobs.
      - ajmurmann 2y ago
        I've heard rumors that at least one of his companies has team whose job is to distract him.
- pavlov 2y ago
  Let’s imagine a Fortune 50 corporation wants to improve efficiency and audit its books for fraud. Should they: 1) Hire professional auditors and business consultants to perform the undoubtedly massive review; 2) Ask the CEO of one of their suppliers to do the review as a fun side gig, let the CEO bring in a tiny team of teenage whiz kids, and give them full god mode access to the company’s books and databases and HR systems so they can fire anyone at will and ask questions later? The approach chosen by America’s chief executive is bafflingly #2. It’s worth noting that Trump has no experience managing a large corporation. All his businesses are partnerships with very few employees. He has no competence for this kind of thing, so he’s delegating everything to Musk who is the proverbial fox in the hen house, shutting down regulators who affect his own businesses.
  - honeybadger1 2y ago
    Being on HN and someone posting a pro-consulting firm post is...rich...
    - ChrisRR 2y ago
      Yes. Many times hiring experts is 100% the correct approach. Getting a rando with next to no experience or knowledge of the product to spend an hour looking before making sweeping changes isn't
    - thesuitonym 2y ago
      Both options are a consulting firm, one just has experience and expertise, the other is DOGE.
  - notpushkin 2y ago
    To be honest, I’d choose the door #2 anytime.
  - toyg 2y ago
    > Trump has no experience managing a large corporation And the little experience he has is of repeated bankruptcies and dodgy dealings, saved only by his political adventures (which now bankroll his Mar A Lago resort with public money).
belorn 2y ago
The wast majority of those domains are either redirects or do not resolve at all, which is what I got when randomly testing them. I would expect that many of them are also be parked at dns service companies. They could apply some efficiency but it would be terrible in term of cost savings. There doesn't seem to be a registration costs (at least not that I can find). DNS service companies might take a $0-50 fee per year per domain? It is a very small number in a very large budget for a government entity.

psd1 2y ago

The moment .gov is opened to the public, I'm squatting as many domains as I can grab. Fill your boots! It's raining marks!

askl 2y ago
And with your X.gov premium subscription you will get your blue checkmark and are recognized as a real government entity.
EvanAnderson 2y ago
I use a jokey ".gov" domain for some of my home IT stuff. I always said wistfully that I'd never actually be able to get that domain name. There's a glimmer of hope now that I actually will be able to (albeit I expect my family and I will be sent to a re-education / extermination camp before that happens).

honeybadger1 2y ago

it's a good thing to spring clean, just like it's generally a good choice to change life habits and lose weight. humans get lazy or preoccupied and need to alter the "normal" state they get into that could be unhealthy or not as productive.the government is ran by humans as well, it's no surprise that it's gotten shoddy in some areas and some shuffling and fear has been injected to correct this in government operations and spending. it won't all be fair or kosher for sure and some of the layoffs were already stated as mistakes publicly and jobs offered back to some(though not very many surprisingly). with that being said, i hope even you see a surprising amount of what has been uncovered is clearly bad?

ChrisRR 2y ago
I'm not sure what parts you're referring to as "clearly bad" because so far I haven't seen any examples of that. What actually seems "clearly bad" is the random stripping of funding with little to no research into the knock-on effects. The only example I've seen that is potentially is a good move is removing the penny from circulation, but of course that has its own pros and cons.
- powerfulusers 2y ago
  i guess elon can't run companies and detect inefficiencies, voters should trust this anon internet user instead!
  - kweingar 2y ago
    Elon breaks almost every promise he makes and has constantly been proven wrong on the claims he's made in the past month. It astounds me that someone not connected to him would trust him at all
    - powerfulusers 2y ago
      [flagged]
      - kweingar 2y ago
        I'm not sure what this has to do with Elon breaking most of his promises and being constantly wrong about the government he claims to be fixing
  - ChrisRR 2y ago
    I'm not american, I just genuinely haven't seen any clearly beneficial moves yet PS. Your green username gives you away
  - tombert 2y ago
    Does he actually run companies? This is a genuine question; he’s the CEO of Tesla, SpaceX, xAI, Boring Company, the CTO of Twitter, and the owner of several more companies. If he’s running five or more companies, and trying to run a government department, how involved can he actually be with running any individual one? They can’t all be full time jobs.
    - ajmurmann 2y ago
      I've heard rumors that at least one of his companies has team whose job is to distract him.
pavlov 2y ago
Let’s imagine a Fortune 50 corporation wants to improve efficiency and audit its books for fraud. Should they: 1) Hire professional auditors and business consultants to perform the undoubtedly massive review; 2) Ask the CEO of one of their suppliers to do the review as a fun side gig, let the CEO bring in a tiny team of teenage whiz kids, and give them full god mode access to the company’s books and databases and HR systems so they can fire anyone at will and ask questions later? The approach chosen by America’s chief executive is bafflingly #2. It’s worth noting that Trump has no experience managing a large corporation. All his businesses are partnerships with very few employees. He has no competence for this kind of thing, so he’s delegating everything to Musk who is the proverbial fox in the hen house, shutting down regulators who affect his own businesses.
- honeybadger1 2y ago
  Being on HN and someone posting a pro-consulting firm post is...rich...
  - ChrisRR 2y ago
    Yes. Many times hiring experts is 100% the correct approach. Getting a rando with next to no experience or knowledge of the product to spend an hour looking before making sweeping changes isn't
  - thesuitonym 2y ago
    Both options are a consulting firm, one just has experience and expertise, the other is DOGE.
- notpushkin 2y ago
  To be honest, I’d choose the door #2 anytime.
- toyg 2y ago
  > Trump has no experience managing a large corporation And the little experience he has is of repeated bankruptcies and dodgy dealings, saved only by his political adventures (which now bankroll his Mar A Lago resort with public money).

belorn 2y ago

The wast majority of those domains are either redirects or do not resolve at all, which is what I got when randomly testing them. I would expect that many of them are also be parked at dns service companies. They could apply some efficiency but it would be terrible in term of cost savings. There doesn't seem to be a registration costs (at least not that I can find). DNS service companies might take a $0-50 fee per year per domain? It is a very small number in a very large budget for a government entity.