What if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo and you send that flyer to over 100,000 homes? Well, if the Swiss Canton (“State”) The city of Baselyou buy a domain with typo and create a redirect to the correct URL.
As a Swiss News Outlet Srf In reports, the Basel Tax Office printed fliers stating that one should enter a URL for tax documents online. However, the Swiss Country Code Top Level Domain (CCTLD) “.ch” is only the Bahamas CCTLD with the Basel-Stadt suffix “.)”.
According to SRF, a spokesperson for the Finance Department of Basel-Stadt, it would cost the equivalent of $100,000 to print and send a batch of new flyers, so it would be pointless to fork out $1,000 to implement a new domain.
The new URL with the redirect is still not live, because it will take some time for the result of the registration process.
