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The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, “The instance has been killed by the Taliban.”.
No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.
The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.
This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
that’s why australia has their army of spiders
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Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
Nope. The ones you’re mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Just don’t use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.
So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.
DNS engineer here: it’s the bane of my existence. Vanity TLDs were a cash grab for ICANN. They have made defensive domains a nightmare
I want to know more
Something like what I wrote in my other comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/6698854
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
If you’re on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.
Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn’t kill it. Admin did.
They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?
Wouldn’t that need them to get the
fu.ck
domain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn’t any website at that domain (doesn’t mean it isnt used)Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don’t think that
queerasfu.ck
would be registered.
.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.
Activitypub makes it next to impossible to “move” an instance to a new domain.
Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.
You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they’ll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a “new” fediverse user they’ll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.
Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too
They could have renewed it just for the irony. Even if it means giving some money to the Taliban.
funding oppression of women for the luls
New domain name proposal:
That’s quite an intentionally misleading headline @[email protected]
What a bad taste title
What a bad taste title
For who…The Taliban?