That kind of moronism is not rare
I work in a research institution which has the same Internet domain from 1992. Every few years some "genius" proposes to "improve" it, forgetting that for over 25 years of our research people all over the world have added email addresses with that domain to their address books. Also all our research papers have the corresponding author's email address in that domain. We now have two domains and I dread the dey when a pointy-hair manager decides to save on the old one. However it will not be done soon because... the old one is painted on the wall of our main building in letters larger than a grown manager.
For full transparency, I'll add that I'm partial because I chose and registered the original domain of the company (the one painted on the building) in the time my bosses had no idea what Internet is.