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Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca 101 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (27 children)

Sucks, but makes sense.

I'm surprised they even attempted to use that domain. The instance still exists and will need to be routed through a new domain. Which, again sucks, because any reference links will be broken now... which... again... has me wondering why they even went with that domain in the first place. Albeit, it was a clever use of a top level. I wonder how many others are doing the same.

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[–] flumph@programming.dev 24 points 9 months ago (9 children)

I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they're usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.

[–] Lamedonyx@lemmy.world 30 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (2 children)

The vast majority of people likely don't know that .tv isn't a vanity or official TLD, but the Tuvalu country TLD. And its royalties make up nearly 10% of the state's budget.

[–] maness300@lemmy.world 14 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So... twitch.tv is actually twitch...Tuvalu???

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 22 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes. Other common ones include .fm for Federated states of Micronesia, .io for British Indian Ocean Territories and .ai for Anguilla.
.be, of youtu.be, is Belgium.

[–] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Back in the days bit.ly was a quite popular link shortener (it's still a link shortener) and when shit went down in Lybia gadda.fi (or some other spelling don't remember) plopped up as a novelty shortener to protest against using just any country TLD for random internet domains. .fi should be fine, it's Finland.

[–] sleepmode@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Interesting. I wonder if that has anything to do with why some companies started dumping them for regular TLDs.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Similarly, the .io TLD is for territories around the Indian Ocean. But for some reason, it became popular for cheap little flash-style games.

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