Having worked for a lot of my local state agencies including DOT, they're always run by goobers and not at all surprised something like this happened. Someone was too lazy to renew the domain, and chaos ensues once a domain scalper gets a hold of it. Someone probably bought it because they didn't know why, but it got a lot of random traffic from the eastern US.
It's registered at godaddy currently, if they were smart they'd transfer the domain to an unfriendly and very non-nato country quickly if this bubbles over somewhere officially. I'd probably have opted to just redirect to a random fetish porn site for grins, but if you have a gambling empire and stand to profit why not, you already have free marketing for life courtesy of the Maryland government.
It's registered at godaddy currently, if they were smart they'd transfer the domain to an unfriendly and very non-nato country quickly if this bubbles over somewhere officially. I'd probably have opted to just redirect to a random fetish porn site for grins, but if you have a gambling empire and stand to profit why not, you already have free marketing for life courtesy of the Maryland government.