It's almost believable

NEXT WEEK: I write a long and impassioned article trying to get everyone to use faceparty again

reproductiverights.gov

It seems reproductiverights.gov is down and I'm hearing it's intentional rather than a technical issue. Wow.

It's certainly not returning DNS. It comes back with NOERROR and an empty record rather than NXDOMAIN, but all of .gov seems to do that for records which don't exist.

Also points toward intentional shutdown.

If you need any information from it, the Internet Archive snapshot from 14th January is available. Until they come for that.