Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh
The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, "The instance has been killed by the Taliban.".
No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.
The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.
This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?
No. The Admins killed the Instance.
Nope. That’s extremely misleading.
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
that's why australia has their army of spiders
God help us all if we have to break out the Emus
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.io is the British Indian ocean's territory, probably not really a risk i doubt anything's going to happen there.
Better to just setup your own ccTLD, for maximum trust.
(honestly only half joking)
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I'm sure Google didn't buy those for the purpose of actually using them, but rather to prevent someone else from registering and using them.
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.
DNS engineer here: it's the bane of my existence. Vanity TLDs were a cash grab for ICANN. They have made defensive domains a nightmare
I want to know more
Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren't just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for "funny" combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.
No need to limit yourself to US tld's, country ones for funny domains can be stable as well. My domain koffie.nu (coffee.now in Dutch), registered in '98, is still going strong. I just hope the rising sealevel won't wipe away the country any time soon.
Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd
Lies
They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?
Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.
Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.
You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.
Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too
.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.
Wouldn't that need them to get the fu.ck domain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn't any website at that domain (doesn't mean it isnt used)
Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don't think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.
What a bad taste title
What a bad taste title
For who...The Taliban?
Why would you want to use .af TLD anyway?
They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It's like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.