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Will this also affect lemmy.ml? (lemmy.ml)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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[–] 49 points 3 years ago (5 children)

FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There's an ISO standard for that.

  • .tv Tuvalu
  • .me Montenegro
  • .fm (Federation of) Micronesia

Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:

  • .uk United Kingdom
  • .co.uk Company
  • ...

Three or more are generic (traditional or new)

  • .com, .net, .org, ...

In some cases, Uncle Sam said "first!" and it stuck.

  • .edu Education (MURICA)
  • .mil Military (MURRICA)
  • .gov Government (MURRRICA)

Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a 'fun' acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    .mil Military (MURRICA)

    That is what made this whole .ml problem. Some people have apparently accidentally leaked American state secrets to Mali by typo.

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  • [–] 16 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    That's a poor excuse. If something is secret or higher it has a different TLD. The SIPRnet uses .smil for example. There are also tools at the boundaries that don't allow going from SIPR to NIPR unless they meet specific criteria. Basically you can only leak those secrets accidentally if they were already on a system they shouldn't have been on.

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  • [–] 18 points 3 years ago (1 child)
    • .edu Education (MURICA)

    .edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in.

    Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    I did not know that. That's not cool

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Australia doesn’t. We’re all .edu.au

    Edit: here is the list of who uses it. Stands for academia if it wasn’t self evident to anyone else either.

    2nd edit: having trouble with escaping characters in the link so it’s defaulting to the ac page when it should be https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ac_(second-level_domain)

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Thanks for the clarification. If this instance goes down please someone start an ''lemmy.ai'' instance. I want to follow the same logic that I went with since the beginning.

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