queer.af, a Mastodon instance, has been killed by the Taliban

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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

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Another reason to not use ccTLDs.

If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.

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.

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

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

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What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?

Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or 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.

Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd

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Yep, never came to updating the site, it's my email/network domain. Maybe Imshould change the 1 into a 2 ;)

So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.

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