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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)

submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (6 children)

Why not use two letter country tlds? I have a few .uk ones.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (4 children)

Presumably you’re a UK citizen using .uk in accordance with the controlling entity’s terms and conditions. These folks weren’t in the same boat.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (7 children)

I thought .uk was Ukraine?

Edit: .ua is Ukraine, .uk is the UK. It seems like the register hates the ISO...

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[–] [email protected] 65 points 9 months ago (5 children)

People have been using country TLDs as cute URLs for years, and somehow it almost always ends up as a problem, or it furthers harms against the countries who own the TLDs (.io for example). Sure .tv or .io or .af sound fun, (anyone remember del.icio.us?) but it's just not worth it.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (17 children)

How does the use of ccTLDs furthers harms against the countries?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

There are other reasons for choosing certain TLD's. I remember back when, the .tk domain was very popular, because it was completely free.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 9 months ago (1 children)

'idiots sign domain over to government, confused when government shuts down domain'

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They knew it was risky AF (pun intended) but went for it anyway. It's not like they were confused, they expected this

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