queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban
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
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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
God help us all if we have to break out the Emus
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.
Just use
.netor so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so.fior.deor.usor whatever. TLDs aren't just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for "funny" combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.No need to limit yourself to US tld's, country ones for funny domains can be stable as well. My domain koffie.nu (coffee.now in Dutch), registered in '98, is still going strong. I just hope the rising sealevel won't wipe away the country any time soon.
Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd
Lies
Yep, never came to updating the site, it's my email/network domain. Maybe Imshould change the 1 into a 2 ;)
There are tons.
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