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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What's wrong with 2 letter country TLDs?

.uk .de .us .nl etc all seem like okay candidates

[–] [email protected] 23 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They used .af because in modern english, "af" stands for "as fuck"

As in "queer. As fuck", meaning VERY queer

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The problem is who controls them. The government of each country can decide at any moment that they want to take control of their TLD and remove any sites that they don't like. It's just not good practice if you want your site to stick around.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Right. So how do you differentiate between the 2-letters ones and 3+? Each TLD can have domains requisitiioned by a government, even if its indirect through ICANN.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

ICANN is certainly not perfect, but there is a difference between the automatic control that countries have over their ccTLD and the control they have through ICANN.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

The US regularly seize domains, even those with foreign registrars. I don't feel that any tld is immune from this. Sure there are some TLDs more at risk than others, like .af being in control of the Taliban, but I'd also say US controlled TLDs are not the least at risk.

Some interesting articles about this

https://www.securityweek.com/country-specific-web-domains-cant-be-seized-icann/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/