Italian Prime Minister announces a new GOV website, but someone else registers the domain

[matrigaldo]

Yesterday italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi announces, during a TV interview, a new government website, SoldiPubblici.it , (translated: public money) where the GOV should publish any information related to any public expenses etc. You know, those kind of things a government will never do for real.

While the interview was going smooth, someone decides to check the domain availability, and -ZAP- he registers it.
The italian Prime Minister was talking about a website mentioning an unregistered domain name.

I link a news source, but unfortunately i can find them only in italian.
http://no_url_shorteners/1FSV2qO

Fortunately (or not) the domain owner is a known italian blogger and instantly announced the registration and the redirect of the domain to the government website.

This is the way the italian government sees internet. You know, few years ago they spent 57 Mil of Euros (avg 70 millions of dollars) for the development of Italia.it . I'm not kidding.

 

[N-A]

$70 million is nothing when the US government can allot hundreds of millions developing a website.

Nice mess up though.

 

[matrigaldo]

What the f**k ! 600 millions for that website!!

 

[jideofor]

Wow... It's official. This is how people get rich. In Nigeria, an arm of the government announced a few months ago that they spend N800 Million naira which about $500,000