Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
that's why australia has their army of spiders
God help us all if we have to break out the Emus
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
Nope. The ones you're mentioned are gTLD (generic top-level domain) but most of the other domains are generic TLD too. See here for the list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_domains
Just don't use country-code TLDs because they can removed by those countries. For example fmhy.ml and now queer.af.
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.
So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.
DNS engineer here: it's the bane of my existence. Vanity TLDs were a cash grab for ICANN. They have made defensive domains a nightmare
If you're on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.
Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn't kill it. Admin did.
Such a heinous click bait, I'm inclined to down vote the post. Definitely misleading af.
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They could get a .ck domain instead and move to queer.as.fu.ck, no?
.ck is only available as subdomains - including the hilarious, co.ck.
Wouldn't that need them to get the fu.ck domain itself? I have a feeling that is already used by someone else, but there currently isn't any website at that domain (doesn't mean it isnt used)
Worst hypothesis they just need to mess around a bit. For example I don't think that queerasfu.ck would be registered.
Activitypub makes it next to impossible to "move" an instance to a new domain.
Every post/comment/and user is uniquely identified using the domain. In the eyes of ActivityPub changing the domain just makes each of those things a completely new thing.
You can set up a new service at your new domain and potentially get most all your users to migrate but they'll be leaving behind their entire histories and as a "new" fediverse user they'll only be discoverable via the historical posts for as long as the original server is reachable.
Yes, that was a big issue for fmhy.ml too
Thats IMO one of the worst engineering decisions in the protocol, besides all the others, but this one (making identity depend on domains, meaning on third parties antithetical to decentralization) is... laughable. Who was responsible for it?
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Damn, that's sad. Thank you for the info.
Not sure how well this would actually work, but couldn't the admins "copy" the instance to the new domain and then initiate an account migration from the old to the new instance for every account? That should both push out the account transfer to all the other instances and preserve the post history as well.
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New domain name proposal:
queer.asf.uk 🤭
Why would you want to use .af TLD anyway?
They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It's like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.
Booooo misleading title
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