Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (mastodon.world)

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[-] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Some amount of centralisation in domain management is necessary, in order to agree who owns what.

Devolving control of TLDs to respective nations was actually a GOOD idea because it means each country can operate those TLDs in a way that fits their needs, which is already much better than all global TLDs being operated by a single organisation.

The main mistake is that queer .af chose to register a domain controlled by a government who was very likely to have problems with what they were using it for.

Nowadays there are a large number of 'new' TLDs which are not nationally controlled and may be a better choice.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Countries only control the tlds that represent them, af for Afghanistan, co.uk (obvious) .us (obvious), etc. The rest like the standard com, net, info and the others recently added like taxi, xyz, vip, etc are controlled by icann.org. Plenty of country tlds are freely available for anyone to use but buyer beware, there is precedent for a country to pull those domains back and not let others use them anymore.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

another issue is migrating accounts losses post history.

Is there really no way to keep post history with same instance new domain name?

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