italia.it portal closed down after burning EUR 45 Million Monday, January 21, 2008
Posted by Luca Segantini in Thinking points.Tags: italia.it, portal, scandal, web
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After 3 years, the pharaonic portal to promote Italy’s tourism, italia.it, has been closed down. €45 Million have been spent on the project (yes, that’s Millions, and the currency is Euros…).
The project was launched March 16, 2004. Here is a blog with a lot of information on this scandal: http://italianscandal.wordpress.com/about/
The revised logo of the project:
*Probe End: 2008-01-18 08:36:08 GMT
Message: Can’t connect to http://www.italia.it:80 (connect: timeout)
Return Code: 500
*Probe End: 2008-01-18 08:41:09 GMT
Message: Can’t connect to http://www.italia.it:80 (connect: timeout)
Return Code: 500
*Probe End: 2008-01-18 08:30:35 GMT
Message: Can’t connect to http://www.italia.it:80 (connect: timeout)
Return Code: 500
These are the last signals of (non)life of italia.it, recorded by the site monitor already mentioned (Thanks Bruno!).