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.
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?
Nope. That’s extremely misleading.
No. The Admins killed the Instance.
Nah the admins killed the instance before the Taliban could at best, kill it, at worse proxy it and gather information.
Seriously gaining control of a domain can allow you to do pretty nefarious things.
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
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
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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.
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.
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It’s Google, probably just bought them on the off chance that they would ever do anything with them.
They are a company where the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand very often anyway.
Two businesses can trademark the same name if they are operating in different industries. Or, the name could have spaces or punctuation that renders the same as a TLD.
Go Ogle Photographic & Paparazzi Inc. could have a reasonable claim to the same
.google
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They even use youtu.be as their URL shortener
.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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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
.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.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
That’s quite an intentionally misleading headline @hal_5700X@lemmy.world
New domain name proposal:
Why would you want to use
.af
TLD anyway?They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It’s like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.
I remember watching a video about this where they explained the .tv sales were an important part of their economy. I might remember wrong, but around 10% or so of their income, I believe.
This video?
Yes!
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Booooo misleading title
What a bad taste title
What a bad taste title
For who…The Taliban?
That it’s objectively false to stir up attention
Your title implies it was directly killed, when it factually was not.
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