People have been using country TLDs as cute URLs for years, and somehow it almost always ends up as a problem, or it furthers harms against the countries who own the TLDs (.io for example). Sure .tv or .io or .af sound fun, (anyone remember del.icio.us?) but it’s just not worth it.
How does the use of ccTLDs furthers harms against the countries?
There are other reasons for choosing certain TLD’s. I remember back when, the .tk domain was very popular, because it was completely free.
The headline is misleading. The Taliban did not shut down queer.af. The team behind the instance decided to move away from the domain so as to not support the Taliban through domain fees. Source: https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-to-taliban/
The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move…in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.
Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml…
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
Well, there’s another one!
I think it makes a huge difference which 2-letter country. I have a couple of .au domains, and I am not stressing about that.
You’ll be stressing about it when the emus take power.
Why not use two letter country tlds? I have a few .uk ones.
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What happened to .su domains though?
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Presumably you’re a UK citizen using .uk in accordance with the controlling entity’s terms and conditions. These folks weren’t in the same boat.
No. I LARP as being British.
How are you liking the Brexit expansion? I felt like was overhyped and overrated.
I thought .uk was Ukraine?
Edit: .ua is Ukraine, .uk is the UK. It seems like the register hates the ISO…
In the ISO, UA is also Ukraine. UK is reserved because it would cause confusion with the United Kingdom, which has the code “GB”… Even though “UK” would make more sense as GB on the surface seems to exclude Northern Ireland as well as a bunch of outlying islands. Apparently they didn’t like the use of “United” and “Kingdom” as they are two standard nouns. Then they proceeded to give the USA “US” so… Yeah, it’s stupid.
Yeah, but the US is all about its exceptionalism, so it gets to be the exception.
As far as I understand it, the US invented the internet (possibly through the divine inspiration of Vice President Al Gore), so it makes sense that they can make or break any rules they want.
Talking about the ISO. Not the internet.
‘idiots sign domain over to government, confused when government shuts down domain’
They knew it was risky AF (pun intended) but went for it anyway. It’s not like they were confused, they expected this
