Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down

Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Unfortunately that has always been the nature of TLDs

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  • lohrun@fediverse.boo ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s less sketchy if you pay for a domain through a reputable registrar

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    • bionicjoey@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The issue here isn’t the registrar though right? It’s that the TLD is being repossessed by the government of the country it’s meant to be associated with.

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      • kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I think the point is that a reputable registrar wouldn’t sell domains like these in the first place… But I’m not saying that’s actually the case :/

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    • hypelightfly@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      More like, it’s less sketchy if you pay for a domain at all. .ml was free, what did they think was going to happen?

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  • Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Indeed… you never really purchase a domain. It’s definitely more of a lease. And that’s any tld.

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• miles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s called a single-point of failure in Engineering.

  For that instance, yes. For the whole of Lemmy, no. Everything else keeps on chugging along.

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  • Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Indeed.

    Imagine if this had happenned to a centralized system like Reddit…

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    • Takumidesh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      A centralized system wouldn’t have this problem since the only reason they can’t just use another domain name is because of refederation. A great example of this happening is piracy websites, which notoriously get shutdown only to pop up five minutes later with a new domain.

      This is actually a critical flaw IMO in federated applications as a whole. Not being able to change domain names makes your entire platform (as an instance runner) tightly coupled to the initial decision you make when first setting up the instance.

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• Willer@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I think its called “redundancy L”

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