The fact that people were registering .ml domains for projects like this is mindboggling. There are many TLDs to pick from without infringing on the terms of use of a country-specific one.
this post was submitted on 21 Jul 2023
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Dang I hope lemm.ee is safe. Hopefully Estonia doesn’t decide the same.
Well, I'm an Estonian citizen at least 😅
I didn't even consider .ee to be a country domain. I thought you used it for the catchy name.
That's pretty cool.
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For anyone that wants to learn more about internet domains, the MKBHD Waveform podcast has an awesome episode about this topic. It’s a super interesting listen where they talk about how the internet works and one of the organizations behind it (ICANN).
ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet
Well, and it's not like this should take anyone by surprise, it's been 10 years coming. Unless Mali was telling people not to worry and then did an about face? I haven't seen anything to indicate that.
The fact that people were registering .ml domains for projects like this is mindboggling. There are many TLDs to pick from without infringing on the terms of use of a country-specific one.
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It'll be fun when Tuvalu decides to take back .tv
1/12th of their national income is from .tv so they'll have sunk before that happens...
But isn’t that day also nearing at a drastic rate? I feel like they’ve been on the brink to Atlantis for a while now.
AFAIK they won't pass this decade, yes
Damn. How does that work out logistically speaking?
Climate refugees will have to find new homes. I would imagine New Zealand and Tahiti would absorb the couple-thousand people as they are the closest larger Pacific Island nations. Australia is less friendly to immigrants.
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Well, this is just weird. When I was migrating from Reddit to this fediverse world I chose .ml and thought it was short for "machine learning" which seemed as a cool domain for me at the time.
FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There's an ISO standard for that.
.tvTuvalu.meMontenegro.fm(Federation of) Micronesia
Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:
.ukUnited Kingdom.co.ukCompany- ...
Three or more are generic (traditional or new)
.com,.net,.org, ...
In some cases, Uncle Sam said "first!" and it stuck.
.eduEducation (MURICA).milMilitary (MURRICA).govGovernment (MURRRICA)
Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a 'fun' acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.
.mil Military (MURRICA)
That is what made this whole .ml problem. Some people have apparently accidentally leaked American state secrets to Mali by typo.
That's a poor excuse. If something is secret or higher it has a different TLD. The SIPRnet uses .smil for example. There are also tools at the boundaries that don't allow going from SIPR to NIPR unless they meet specific criteria. Basically you can only leak those secrets accidentally if they were already on a system they shouldn't have been on.
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.eduEducation (MURICA)
.edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it's the case in many more countries.
In 2001 it was limited to US educational institutions only, all registrations prior were grandfathered in.
Although I haven't got a clue why my non-US university, founded in 2009, has a .edu domain.
I did not know that. That's not cool
Pretty sure most countries use .ac for universities. Ac.uk, ac.au, ac.nz are all standard.
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And io belongs to the British Indian Ocean Territory.
There are thousands of gTLDs now, though. But most of them are brand names.
What about .world?
That's a generic top-level domain. It is not associated with any country. It belongs to "Identity Digital Inc.".
Interesting, thanks
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No, it's Mali.
The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean "marxist leninist" but I think it's more likely they wanted a free domain name.
The rumor is fake, the devs have said it multiple times. If they would have wanted to do some funny Marxism meme they would have used .su
Maybe they didn't choose it for that, but to be fair they are definitely and admittedly Marxist-Leninists
Yes, as there are plenty of other developers who are openly liberals or some other flavour of capitalism. You don't need to agree with the developers political choices all the time to use their software.
Right. My statement was one of fact, not trying to say it's a bad thing. I'm a Marxist-Leninist as well.
Hello there comrade! Nice to have you here!
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SU = Soviet Union
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Sounds like it will if Mali decides to take back .ml as Gabon apparently did for .ga. background here https://domainincite.com/28814-millions-of-domains-to-be-deleted-as-freenom-loses-its-first-tld
$ whois lemmy.ml
WHOIS lookup for LEMMY.ML can temporarily not be answered. Please try again.
ERROR: domain not found:
$
But it's still in my DNS cache
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