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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)

submitted 7 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to c/technology@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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[–] MostlyBlindGamer@rblind.com 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Some other Central and Eastern European ones are weird as well.

[–] bermuda@beehaw.org 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

South Africa is .za from Zuid-Africa, the dutch term for the country

[–] JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz 5 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

At least it makes some sense, as they are mostly based on ISO 3166, as well as:

the international vehicle code for South Africa has been "ZA" since 1936. ZAR serves as the ISO 4217 currency code for the South African rand. South African aircraft registration prefixes also start with Z.

SA is the country code for Saudi Arabia.