When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.

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[–] Blaze@discuss.online 73 points 7 months ago (3 children)

That’s an old story, and if I remember correctly the title was misleading, it was more of a decision of the instance admins to not renew it rather than the Taliban having anything to do with it

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 28 points 7 months ago

Yeah, they didn't want their money going to the Taliban, and it's a little shaky as to whether the Taliban's Ministry of IT would take a stricter content enforcement on their ccTLD. For a while, it was only possible to renew domains, not buy new ones.

Still, I stuck with the title because the Taliban is still the reason.

[–] spujb@lemmy.cafe 7 points 7 months ago

the misleading title you are remembering was closer to “queer.af is shutting down, killed by the taliban”

[–] foggy@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

It's more like just because you can make a funny domain name out of a specific top level domain like .af Make sure some country doesn't have dibs on it first.

Like it wouldn't be smart to start a business selling che Guevara merch at commra.de.

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Why would Germany of all places ban a shop selling Che Guevara merch?

[–] Alto@kbin.social 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think the point is politics in a nation can change at any time, and as such you may lose the domain/no longer feel safe supporting that nation. Just because they wouldn't now doesn't mean they wouldn't in the future. (Especially with how well AfD is polling and how much CDU/CSU seem to be starting to cooperate)

[–] yetAnotherUser@feddit.de 0 points 7 months ago

How are non-ccTLDs, like .com any safer? A fascist like Trump could decide to nationalize managing them at any time

[–] Carighan@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I think "funny" names involving TLDs as a whole just need to be more careful. It should never be what you expect.

Like, if someone from the US told me to go a website called "comrade" to buy merch, I'd expect comrade.com. To get me to go to their intended address they'd need to be a German telling me to go to "comra". That's utterly unintuitive as far as verbal communication goes.

[–] sizzler@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

You buy both and link from the .com

[–] steal_your_face@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I hope no country has dibs on .rodeo

[–] Norgur@kbin.social 0 points 7 months ago

I should found xxxistan.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 24 points 7 months ago

That sucks but it's also funny because it's a pun.

[–] Allero@lemmy.today 20 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Can we stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that to this day, a queer community uses domain of freaking AFGHANISTAN? :D

That by itself is based, although yeah, registrar fees issues are real.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 16 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Unfortunately in the fediverse changing your domain isn't really possible. You basically have to start over.

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 16 points 7 months ago (2 children)

It's technically possible, just really, really hard. One example of a successful migration was the transition from calckey.social to firefish.social. It was a massive, extremely difficult undertaking, though.

A big problem involves how user identities are tied to instances. If there were a way to decouple that, I think a lot of the pain goes away.

[–] RxBrad@lemmy.today 7 points 7 months ago

Firefish devs actually took the time to code hostname migration into their software, however.

That aspect seems to be particularly lacking in most Fediverse software.

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 3 points 7 months ago

In a similar fashion, it would be great to find a way to migrate your post history, not just your followers, between one service and another. So far it's possible to request a backup, but only a few services allow importing said backup, let alone import a backup from a different provider (so far only Firefish, Pixelfed and its derivatives allow for the latter).

[–] neutron@thelemmy.club 8 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Domain hacking is fun, but politics isn't fun. Bit.ly got taken over by the Libyan government agency, FMHY.ml also had to start over after Malian government stopped Freenom from giving out free domains.

[–] fidodo@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

So many companies will be at the mercy of Anguilla

[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

and a few to tuvalu and in by extension the sea

[–] density@kbin.social 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I believe they are moving. Paid for in some part by .tv

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

That green pixel tho. I know it's not the point at all, but I can't unsee it.

[–] RobotToaster@mander.xyz 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

when you're so queer you can't even get your flag straight smh

[–] deadsuperhero@lemmy.world 6 points 7 months ago

Actually, that's probably my fault, I had to edit the graphic on a phone, and don't have the steadiest hands.

I'll fix it when I get home.

[–] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 0 points 7 months ago

Its just occurred to me that the pride flag is a bunch of STRAIGHT lines. I am amused.

[–] RezaHoss@mas.to 5 points 7 months ago

@deadsuperhero
What a good report!