This is just classic. A California government agency ran into trouble last week - they reset some domain server information after one of their systems got hacked, and the domain ended up under the purview of the GSA. That was a problem, because the issue wasn't resolved fast enough, and the GSA's admins apparently forgot that California has more than one website:

On Tuesday, at around 2 p.m., the federal organization responsible for managing the .gov top level domain pulled the plug on the ca.gov domain, according to Jim Hanacek, a public information officer with California's Department of Technology Services. The "ca.gov domain was removed as a valid address by the federal General Services Administration, who has an office that oversees the use of the .gov domain," he said.

Fortunately for California, they noticed and got on the horn with GSA. Had they not noticed right away, and DNS records propagated, there would have been chaos. I'd love to know who the bright guy at the GSA was who thought this was a good idea.

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