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There are more oddities like that:

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.

Examples:

- http://www.nah.sh/ (Official transit agency)

- http://www.studentenwerk.sh/ (Official Student Service Agency, operates dormitories, etc)

- 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.




> Many more such cases exist all around the world

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.


Also: .nu is owned by Niue, but is mostly used by Swedish companies (nu is swedish for now). It was even taken over by IIS/.SE in 2013.


.nu is common in the Netherlands as well, it means the same thing in Dutch.




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