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My favorite URL oddity has to be "id.me" for U.S. Citizen identity services.

Seems a bit odd to use a Montenegro domain, doesn't it?

It seems to be run by a third-party company that the government latched on to for some reason: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ID.me

Nothing out of the ordinary for individual government departments to turn to private contractors when the GSA doesn't offer them a service they need when they need it.

GSA has since developed login.gov, but there hasn't been a mandate that other agencies have to use it over third-parties.

Ah I see! Hope there's one soon

There was another one (census, maybe? can't recall which agency it was) using a .gd for a while, too... don't see it on the list anymore. Not sure who signed off on putting government services behind the "control" of a country we've invaded before.

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