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I don’t go to .com and .net sites: Obama

Obama discusses top level domain names in humor video.

As of this morning Barrack Obama’s appearance on Funny or Die’s Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis has been viewed a whopping 12 million times. Obama’s appearance on the show was designed to boost awareness of his healthcare act among younger people, and it may be working.

If you haven’t seen the video yet (embedded below), you may get a kick out of a brief mention of top level domain names. Here’s what transpired:

Galifianakis: So do you go to any websites that are dot coms or dot nets, or do you mainly just stick to dot govs?

Obama: No, actually we go to dot govs…have you heard of Healthcare.gov?

While Obama may just go to .gov domain names, many confused people have landed on Healthcare.com. I almost wonder if this segue to discussing Healthcare.gov was designed to emphasize that it wasn’t Healthcare.com.

Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis: President Barack Obama from President Barack Obama

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