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queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban (archive.fo)
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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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[–] radix@lemm.ee 9 points 2 years ago (4 children)

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

[–] iso@lemy.lol 36 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.

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FierySpectre@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd

Lies

[–] TheInsane42@lemmy.world 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 ;)

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I want to know more

[–] 4z01235@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

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