Did we know before it’s sketchy?
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.
WhoRoger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
RaoulDook@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
RxBrad@lemmy.world 11 months 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.
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
.ml is just Mali’s country domain. Maybe your workplace should get a better filter?
Marsupial@quokk.au 11 months 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.
Dee@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I did, I just messed up and didn’t tell anybody. I’m sorry folks, this is on me.
SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 11 months 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
WhoRoger@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Guess nobody told youtu.be or the million of services on .to or .it…
SlovenianSocket@lemmy.ca 11 months 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
emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 11 months 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.
001100010010@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
Lol they could’ve just spend $10 from the donations they receive to secure an actual .com domain
Zagorath@aussie.zone 11 months ago
Pretty sure they went with .ml not for price reasons, but because they liked to pretend it stood for their political ideology.
Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 months ago
They stated themselves that it was for price reasons.
freamon@endlesstalk.org 11 months 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)
Flax_vert@feddit.uk 11 months ago
New domains have been around for a while. The fancy ones are a bit more pricey.