Yes, it stands for Mali, no, it's not why lemmygrad used the domain name. Do you think all the services like Grammarly and Bitly are all Libyan services as well? Because I've got news that may just blow your mind.
Please stop copy-pasting ignorance.
Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months agoI’m going to have to make a copy paste for this:
.ml stands for Mali.
.ee stands for Estonia.
.tv stands for Tuvalu
Just like .ca stands for Canada.
Sentrovasi@kbin.social 11 months ago
wings@lemmy.perthchat.org 11 months ago
Please don’t make a copy paste for this, smh.
Madbrad200@lemmy.world 11 months ago
this is technically true, but it’s not why lemmygrad, ran by full on communists, chose the .ml tld
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Which ironically, is now failing due to the fault of those in power of that TLD. The festive raw needs to be careful with tld’s they choose. ICAAN exists, but it’s obvious that some domain power is delegated and therefore safer TLDs should be chosen
hoshikarakitaridia@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Honestly this might be an unpopular opinion, but I think this literally down to bad luck and this is nothing we have to be prepare for anymore than any other host. Which is an incredibly small amount. It’s not like this shit happens often as there would be a lot of news coverage around it considering the amount of big companies affected, and I frankly think this is very low on the list of priorities of things that lemmy has to keep in mind or address at some point.
kautau@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I completely agree with you. My point was purely to say that in the future those running parts of the fediverse now need to be more cautious. Now that we know that ICAAN will allow TLD administrators to reclaim these domains, it’s important that TLDs are chosen less about how they look on the moment as a cool URL, and more about their historical integrity of keeping a domain active.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Stalinists, not communism
icyjiub@lemmy.world 11 months ago
It’s funny you’re getting down votes for this. ML was literally created as the official formulation of Marxism & Leninism for the USSR by Stalin.
boredtortoise@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Reactionary Stalin/China/etc stans try to frame themselves as communists and don’t like it when it’s called out. They’re like qanonists with a different cult leader.
someguy3@lemmy.world 11 months ago
.ml was the main Lemmy before .world Most communities were there.
Madbrad200@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Yes I know, the owners of lemmygrad/lemmy.ml created lemmy
sciawp@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I can’t believe someone else is having the exact same conversation with the exact same person as me
Gork@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I’m surprised they didn’t use the .su Soviet Union Top Level Domain.