Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance
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from thejevans@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 19:30
https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406
from thejevans@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 19:30
https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
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Not a fan of clickbait.Edit: I was mistaken, my bad. I thought the article was referring to the admin deciding not to renew the queer.af domain, which was reported a few months ago.
Care to explain how this is clickbait?
Because the article title suggests they specifically targeted queer.af. A better title would have been something along the lines of “taliban take control of Afghanistan’s .af tld breaking websites including queer.af”
Not really. The Taliban took control of .af a while ago. It wasn’t them taking control that broke things, it was that they specifically targeted certain domains and took them down using control they had secured previously, with queer.af being a great example.
That isn’t what happened according to the queer.af admins. They decided to let the domain registration lapse cause they didn’t want to support that government fiscally even indirectly.
Yes, and that would have happened months from now. The Taliban shut them down immediately.
Oh I see, I misread the announcement then.
the link offered me candy
The title literally says exactly what happened though. You just added context that isn’t there. It doesn’t imply anything.
Giggling at the thought of the Taliban leadership being told what “af” means… they’re probably a bit miffed about that. Perhaps they’ll take it on the chin and set up taliban.af or something.
I doubt they have the sense of humour for that.
LOL, serves them right! 😂
Well, they literally signed up for this…
You say that as if every other TLD does not also have its own particularities. Do some basic research on a TLD before committing to it. For example, .cat is not for your cat pics.