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Is it true that the .ml part stands for "marx-lenin" or is this misinformation?
Officially it is the domain of "Mali" https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml Might be also the letters "l" and "m" which are the consonants of lemmy There is no ".lm" top level domain
That's for http addresses, isn't it? The ending of a lemmy instance is likely completely different - as you don't find url domains ending in ".world" or ".social".
EDIT: I'm wrong!
DNS-Names are not bound/specific to a protocol/service type. Of course some might fit better for a serivce, e.g. the top level domain ".im" fits "Instant Messaging" (e.g xmpp, matrix ...) services well. But still you could host a Website (https-protocol) on the same address. The list of valid top level domains is not static. new TLDs are being approved constantly. This means e.g. ".world" is a valid Top Level Domain but not many/big services use it for now, so it is rather unknown.
It’s the same, those are just newer tlds
I'm really confused reading your comment. Are you saying that the top level domains of .world and .social cannot be used for "ordinary" websites?
I don't know!
The domain doesn't have anything to do with what is hosted behind it, generally speaking. Any normal website could use .world or .social if they wanted to but they're uncommon
About the only TLDs that still have an enforced meaning anymore are .gov and .mil.