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[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (3 children)

yea but why did mastodon comply with their request to seize?

what if they just deny them their request?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

the morons who registered teh domain, signed it over to the government 'for safe keeping' and then the government turned into the literal taliban.

dont sign your domains over to some foreign power or youre gunna have a bad time

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's got nothing to do with Mastodon. Mastodon did not "comply" because Mastodon has no say one way or the other.

Where TLDs are associated with particular countries then the national registrar for that country controls who is allocated domains under it.

Example: '.fr' is associated with France and is controlled by a French organisation.

'.af' is similarly controlled by an Afghanistan organisation and they can choose to grant or revoke ownership of domains under that TLD however they like.

The Mastodon instance will need to move to a new domain.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (4 children)

since domain is centralized and subject to a state power.

is it possible to change that or any workaround?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

This is the internet equivalent of choosing to open a gay bar in Kabul instead of San Francisco.

There were plenty of safe spaces, they chose terribly.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (1 children)

The national top-level domains are MEANT to be controlled by their relevant nation-states. They are not intended to be part of vanity URLs.

So there's nothing to "fix" here. This is the system working as intended, basically.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Some amount of centralisation in domain management is necessary, in order to agree who owns what.

Devolving control of TLDs to respective nations was actually a GOOD idea because it means each country can operate those TLDs in a way that fits their needs, which is already much better than all global TLDs being operated by a single organisation.

The main mistake is that queer .af chose to register a domain controlled by a government who was very likely to have problems with what they were using it for.

Nowadays there are a large number of 'new' TLDs which are not nationally controlled and may be a better choice.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago

another issue is migrating accounts losses post history.

Is there really no way to keep post history with same instance new domain name?