This Website Only Open During Business Hours

If you happen to manage a Limited Liability Corp (LLC) in New York State and need to file your Biennial Statement, you might follow the directions sent to you in the mail and go to the state’s website for conducting such business: www.ebiennial.dos.ny.gov.

But if you try this on, say, a weekend, here is the message you’ll see:

I can’t recall the last time (or even the first time) I saw a website that was only open during business hours. Have you? I guess it is a mark of how the web has changed our daily lives that we are disappointed to find a virtual office that isn’t open 24/7. Furthermore: can anyone — perhaps you work in New York’s Department of State — explain the reasoning behind this?