Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down
hitagi@ani.social 1 year agoThanks for answering. I figured it was a registrar thing. How bad do you think the situation will be for other .ml domains?
I’m guessing fmhy.ml was using Freenom but lemmy.ml and lemmy.ml were using a different domain registrar, hence the situation right now.
hemmes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, not a good situation.
The main story I found seems to indicate that many government communications have been misdirected due to the typo of .ml instead of the intended .mil - reserved for the US military. 🤦♂️ There has been an entrepreneur that holds the contract to manage Mali’s country domain and that’s expiring Monday (24th?). I’m assuming the government is not renewing the contract and will instead be taking over the domains and any related data. He has been collecting some of that data and warning the US government about the issue to no avail…for 10 years.
ICANN is the body responsible for the gTLD initiative, which gives you names like .social and .world. They are an American non-profit with a multinational committee, handling nearly all of the databases that store our Internet address records, etc., you can be relatively assured that your domain won’t be messed with.
The instances really have no option here than to test out moving their systems to an alternative domain and “bench test” their migration to discover a path that works or a least come to the conclusion to start all over.
sciawp@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Holy shit this is actually kind of a huge story
Crismus@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Totally understandable incompetence from the military.
I think I only have a few original pages from my service. Most just disappear.
hemmes@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Yeah, they should just block ingress/egress to any .ml. Maybe they keep it open for misinformation campaigns.
Lenins2ndCat@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Lmao if the US military gets phished by a domain typo they deserve it.