queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban (archive.fo)

submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[-] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 37 points 2 years 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.

[-] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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] 17 points 2 years 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] 7 points 2 years ago

Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd

Lies

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

There are tons.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

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

[-] [email protected] 10 points 2 years 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] 5 points 2 years ago

I want to know more

[-] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago

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

this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024

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