Published May 2nd, 2003 by Jim O'Halloran
NZ Govt spends $1mil on domain name
Hot on the heels of our govenment spending $4mil on a web site comes the news that the NZ government spent $NZ1mil on a domain name.
The New Zealand government has come under fire for spending $1 million of tax-payers money on buying the domain NewZealand.com from previous owners Virtual Countries. That’s one million New Zealand dollars, but it still equates to a healthy £350,000.
Wonder if I need a new category for “Government Internet Stupidity”…
Update (5/5): The Register elaborates further on what happened to NewZealand.com.