City website shut down Monday

Anyone trying to look at information on the city of Green River’s website was greeted with an unfamiliar sight Monday.

The website was replaced by a message the domain had expired, cutting off access to the website. According to the city’s IT specialist Brandan Corthell, the city’s domain registration had lapsed.

A web domain is essentially the name of a website. People and businesses running their own websites often have to register their web domain to operate the website and ensure no one else on the internet is using that domain. Registration lapses occur when a site owner fails t...