The government of the state of Schleswig-Holstein in Germany uses for most official websites the ___domain .sh, which actually belongs to Saint Helena.
At this point almost all domains on .sh actually belong to companies or governmental entities in Schleswig-Holstein, the remaining domains mostly belong to geeks using it due to the similarity to the file ending .sh for shell files.
- https://www.wir-bewegen.sh/ (Kickstarter for public projects, operated by the government; one example is "a 3D model of the city for blind people as map, publicly accessible next to the train station")
Many more such cases exist all around the world, it is... weird.
Yep. The Minnesota House of Representatives and Senate use http://www.house.mn/ and http://www.senate.mn/ respectively. It's really strange to see a government agency use a TLD belonging to a foreign country.
Write a Cease and Desist letter to
That should get them to stop.A letter such as this costs less than a Euro, and means they have no excuse not to act on it.
Otherwise you can try sending them a fax, that usually also has better chances at success with businesses.
I kinda want to move my twitch streams over to livecoding just to be able to get into this deletion mess and send lawyers after them now...