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queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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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

  • radix
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    9•1 year ago

    What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?

    • @[email protected]
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      37•1 year ago

      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.

    • Carighan Maconar
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      Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren’t just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for “funny” combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.

      • @[email protected]
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        17•1 year ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]
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          7•1 year ago

          Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd

          Lies

          • @[email protected]
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            2•1 year ago

            Yep, never came to updating the site, it’s my email/network domain. Maybe Imshould change the 1 into a 2 ;)

    • shnizmuffin
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      13•1 year ago

      There are tons.

    • Deceptichum
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      So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.

      • @[email protected]
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        10•1 year ago

        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

        • @[email protected]
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          5•1 year ago

          I want to know more

          • @[email protected]
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            0•1 year ago

            Something like what I wrote in my other comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/6698854

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