Comment on Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban

GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• flumph@programming.dev ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I doubt most people know that country TLDs are different from vanity TLDs. I know when I look up domains, they’re usually all smooshed together and then the terms are in a giant block of ToS.

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  • Lamedonyx@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The vast majority of people likely don’t know that .tv isn’t a vanity or official TLD, but the Tuvalu country TLD. And its royalties make up nearly 10% of the public funding of the country.

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    • maness300@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      So… twitch.tv is actually twitch…Tuvalu???

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      • JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Yes. Other common ones include .fm for Federated states of Micronesia, .io for British Indian Ocean Territories and .ai for Anguilla.
        .be, of youtu.be, is Belgium.

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    • PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Similarly, the .io TLD is for territories around the Indian Ocean. But for some reason, it became popular for cheap little flash-style games.

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  • GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Yeah, this is most probably true.

    Honestly though, I don’t even know what most of the genetic domains are that were created. It’s still deeply ingrained in me that any serious website should be using .com, .net, or .org. But… the amount of domains that were purchased just for the purpose of resale at an astronomical value has made so many of those unreachable.

    There are some dot-coms that I have wanted for years which have been sitting stagnantly for more than two decades. I’d love to buy them, but there’s no way I’d pay the asking price. At least generic TLDs break that stalemate for a lot of folks.

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    • noobnarski@feddit.de ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Here in Germany most (German) websites use .de, so its definetly not unprofessional here.

      I am also not surprised that .de is one of the most used country TLDs out there.

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      • GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        It’s certainly become normalized. And it was good to open up the TLDs for various purposes. 😊

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• marzhall@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  From one of the admins:

  To the people who are like “What did you expect to happen when you picked a .af domain, are you idiots?”

  Yes, we were aware of the possibility of suspension from the start Yes, we were aware that political circumstances could change But thumbing your nose at conservative autocrats as an even minor form of protest is fun In the end pretty much everyone has migrated out successfully (and I’ll continue to help anyone who remains) We’ve all gotten a fun story out of this

  I’ve been signalling the probable demise of queer.af to my followers for the past year. We knew the end was coming; we just anticipated it to take a little longer

  So long; it was fun while it lasted.

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  • GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    💜

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• ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Similar thing happened with an instance I was on, it couldn’t be fixed and they had to start a new instance. Think the problem was federation related, you need every instance admin to change the domain manually in their instance

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  • GlassHalfHopeful@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was afraid of that. If this is common enough, i think it’s something the devs can introduce a feature for which would propagate such a change. Doubt it’s high on the totem of things to do, though.

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• Aatube@kbin.social ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It says AF. I rest my case

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