politics @lemmy.world Tony Bark @pawb.social 2d ago

Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review

federalnewsnetwork.com Agencies plan to decommission hundreds of .gov websites following GSA review

Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.

Politics @sh.itjust.works pelespirit @sh.itjust.works 2d ago

federalnewsnetwork.com /it-modernization/2025/07/agencies-plan-to-decommission-hundreds-of-gov-websites-following-gsa-review/

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Great idea! This will save the taxpayers literally hundreds of dollars in domain registration fees! That's over 0.0001¢ per taxpayer!!
- I am pretty sure they own the .gov TDL.
  
  IIRC there's still an ICANN fee that has to be paid by the registrar per domain registered
- They saved a whole dollar!
  
  And it only cost three dollars.
- Technically they own the root DNS server, so they will not be saving a single penny but spending a bunch of money for zero savings.
  
  I might be wrong, but I seem to recall there's an ICANN fee associated with registration as well.
Do what you can to save that information! After fascism falls, decades from now, history will have to be rebuilt from scratch.

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