- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
- cross-posted to:
- fediverse@lemmy.ml
The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
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
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.
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
There are tons.
There’s nothing wrong with ccTLDs as long as you pick the ccTLD of a country you trust.
Vanity ccTLDs (.ly, .af, .io) are almost always a terrible idea, but I don’t see why I would trust a megacorp backed TLD like .coffee any more than I trust .dk or .fi. The same goes for de facto American ccTLDs like .com/.info/.net.
.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.
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)
You can just buy a brand TLD for 100k, like Google did with .google and .youtube. Of course, even Google only seems to use blog.google (and I don’t think they even use .youtube) but they could!
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.
They even use youtu.be as their URL shortener
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