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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
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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.
It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh
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?
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
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.io is the British Indian ocean’s territory, probably not really a risk i doubt anything’s going to happen there.
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Better to just setup your own ccTLD, for maximum trust.
(honestly only half joking)
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I’m sure Google didn’t buy those for the purpose of actually using them, but rather to prevent someone else from registering and using them.
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
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
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
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?
.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.
Wouldn’t that need them to get the
fu.ckdomain 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.ckwould be registered.
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
