• Fizz@lemmy.nz
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    1 year ago

    Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.

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      1 year ago

      If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.

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      1 year ago

      What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        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.

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          1 year ago

          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.

    • ApostleO@startrek.website
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      1 year ago

      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.