The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.

  • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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    8 months ago

    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.

    • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
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      8 months ago

      Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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        8 months ago

        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!

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      8 months ago

      .io is the British Indian ocean’s territory, probably not really a risk i doubt anything’s going to happen there.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
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        8 months ago

        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.