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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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    • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      New domains have been around for a while. The fancy ones are a bit more pricey.

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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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    • emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      .ml is just Mali’s country domain. Maybe your workplace should get a better filter?

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      • Marsupial@quokk.au ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        Or maybe realising anything ending in .ml was most likely spam and if it caught the 5 legitimate Mali domains oh well, zero loss for anyone.

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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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    • WhoRoger@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Guess nobody told youtu.be or the million of services on .to or .it…

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      • SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        .be and .to are free to use by anyone as set by the respective countries registrars, anyone that registers a .it domain outside of Europe is just asking for trouble

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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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