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Queer.af mastodon domain has been seized by the Taliban (mastodon.world)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 17 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That's not how it works... the .af domain is reserved for use by Afganistan by ICANN and the government of Afganistan is the Taliban. Same with the commies on .ml which is reserved for Malaysia.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Everything else correct. But ml is actually Mali. my is Malaysia.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Dammit. The whole thing is basically absurd though because these letters mean fuckall in Afghanistan, Mali, and Malaysia and I think URLs can even have unicode now, though idk about tlds

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

There are tons of tlds with arbritrary unicode characters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

To be fair, I didn't know ml was Mali, I had to look that up. But I did know Malaysia was my, which was what prompted me to look ml up.