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freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I mean, the .ml domain belongs to Mali and they have every right to take it back.

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  • freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    True. It might have been better though if the Lemmy devs hadn’t been such cheapskates and forked over the 10 bucks it takes to get a domain name that isn’t sketchy.

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    • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Pretty sure they went with .ml not for price reasons, but because they liked to pretend it stood for their political ideology.

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      • Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        They stated themselves that it was for price reasons.

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      • freamon@endlesstalk.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Maybe. I read the idea about it standing for Marxist/Leninist, but there’s thousands of TLDs now - if you can get .diamonds and .world, there’s probably something that would evoke the same lefty idea (although maybe lemmy pre-dates the new domains, I don’t know)

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    • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Did we know before it’s sketchy?

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      • RaoulDook@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        The parent domain was apparently well known to be a common host of phishing domains and scam sites. Free domains tend to attract those types, so that’s a good reason from the start not to use that if you want your site to be reliably accessible and findable on search engines.

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      • RxBrad@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        My work uses zScaler for its Internet web filters. zScaler has everything *.ml blocked.

        So yeah, it’s fairly well-known to be sketchy.

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      • Dee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        I did, I just messed up and didn’t tell anybody. I’m sorry folks, this is on me.

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      • SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Yes. Hosting a service in a country other than where a TLD is designated for is bad practice and common knowledge for any web developer

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      lemmy.ml was a sort of prototype made by the devs of the lemmy software. It wasn’t really meant for widespread public adoption. So it makes sense that they went with a free domain.

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    • 001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Lol they could’ve just spend $10 from the donations they receive to secure an actual .com domain

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  • ziggurism@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “Every right”? No. They have the power to do so but that doesn’t make it right. They sold those domains fair and square. Contracts were signed.

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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Domains aren’t sold, they are leased for a period of time. In this case the lease was for ten years and is lapsing now.

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