LTO Advertising Expired Website ?
Sunday, August 23, 2009The Land Transportation Office or more popularly known as LTO has their official website located at http://www.lto.gov.ph.
Two months ago when I renewed my license, I was handed a flyer promoting their newest online service. Their catch phrase was "Why fall in line when you can go online. Transact Now @ LTO Online". The ad said to log on to http://go.lto.net.ph
So I decided to check it out and got this message:
The name lto.net.ph has expired
I found out that the domain expired last July 19, 2009. Does that mean that the online service has been discontinued ? Could it be that the website is still fully working and just an oversight to renew the domain ?So as for the online part, it's offline. But much worse is that the domain has expired making it up for grabs.
Let's hope that a promoted online service stays online.
2 comments
Nice post po. Sayang naman if they are using the expired domain for a number of years. I don't think they forgotten to renew though.
ReplyDeleteFor me, I like the lto.gov.ph. Mas maganda ang .gov if you are running a government agency than the .net extension.
@Raquel i think more of marketing strategy yung paggamit nung .net domain. their primary site is still the lto.gov.ph . tingin ko mabuting pinagsama lahat into one site than make another one with the functionality. whaddyathink?
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