The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
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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Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.
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.
I don’t think so, you can’t just claim a brand name of your own. You have to own a trademark on the name.
It’s Google, probably just bought them on the off chance that they would ever do anything with them.
They are a company where the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand very often anyway.
Two businesses can trademark the same name if they are operating in different industries. Or, the name could have spaces or punctuation that renders the same as a TLD.
Go Ogle Photographic & Paparazzi Inc. could have a reasonable claim to the same
.googleTLD. The registration fee is chump change for Google/Alphabet to make sure this can’t happen.That’s true, but anyone with a legitimate concern for confusion can file an appeal with ICANN if someone applies for the name.
If trademarks were a concern, I’m sure Apple would also be buying every .iDeviceName gTLD imaginable. Hell, Apple doesn’t even own the iPad trademark in China, so that one Chinese company would be able to register .ipad as a TLD if it wasn’t for the objection procedures.
There were actually objections to .amazon from a bunch of people living near the Amazon river, but those were dismissed for various (valid, IMO) reasons. I doubt objections to gTLDs with the names of global brands would be dismissed so early.
They even use youtu.be as their URL shortener
.io is the British Indian ocean’s territory, probably not really a risk i doubt anything’s going to happen there.
Many people don’t know it’s not a generic TLD.
There was some drama about the TLD a while back by people who disagree with the British occupation of the territories, and with the state of the world right now, I don’t think it’s entirely unimaginable that the TLD will be redelegated. We’ve seen the death and redelegation of .tk and other Freenom domains already, which was partially because of a lawsuit, but also because the locals wanted control of their TLD back (because none of the TLD money was flowing into the local economy).
I think the TLD isn’t at great risk at the moment, but if you’re going to build your business, you may want to pick a generic TLD just in case.
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
Nope. The ones you’re mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Just don’t use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.
Just use
.netor so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so.fior.deor.usor 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.
Lies
Yep, never came to updating the site, it’s my email/network domain. Maybe Imshould change the 1 into a 2 ;)
There are tons.
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
Something like what I wrote in my other comment: https://lemmy.world/comment/6698854