1y ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

1y ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

1y ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

1y ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

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I have nothing to add other than that's an amazing instance name lol
- And this was probably inevitable.
Yeah but now it's owned by the Taliban meaning the queer is coming from inside the house.
Gottem.
- Always has been. Bacha bazi is still common in Afghanistan.
For what it's worth, I guess they saw this coming.
The irony of this being crossposted from ML.
- Oh I'm fully aware haha, and the article is on a CO site. At the time I made my account, lemmy.ml seemed to be the best option, even with the poor TLD choice.
  
  Oh I'm not giving you grief, I just think it's funny.
  the article is on a CO site
  🤌
I'm honestly surprised how long it took. As soon as I saw the server's domain I thought, "that's not going to go over well in Afghanistan." I didn't realize that the Taliban just hadn't gotten around to reviewing their TLD yet.
What's wrong with 2 letter country TLDs?
.uk .de .us .nl etc all seem like okay candidates
- They used .af because in modern english, "af" stands for "as fuck"
  As in "queer. As fuck", meaning VERY queer
- 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.
  
  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.
Lmao

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