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yaloginyesterday at 5:49 PM4 repliesview on HN

Oh wow did not realize they changed the web site to war too. Wonder how many million they spent on that name change. Just such a bad look for the country


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burkamanyesterday at 6:10 PM

At least $10 million but likely much more. https://www.cbo.gov/publication/61942

hx8yesterday at 5:56 PM

Why would it cost millions? I've switched domains for just a couple bucks before.

1. Have both domains point to the same IP address.

2. Make sure both domains are working and DNS has fully propagated.

3. Make your old domain a 301 redirect.

4. Do a couple of find and replaces in your codebase and ship it out.

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mghackerladyyesterday at 6:19 PM

don't they control the .gov tld? They don't really have to pay a domain registrar and war.gov probably wasn't used anywhere else

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mannanjyesterday at 5:54 PM

You didn't see their YouTube video when they launched. it looked like a movie trailer meets a Donald Trump's marketing company's yes-men agreement in a board room: "Yes, this we like this movie, make our trailer look a movie trailer from that badass Tom Cruise movie!" and it was very much like they were monetizing and marketing war as a movie, with entertainment and business value.

Pathetic. They launched like a business, and I guess for the bourgeoisie class, war is a business.