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This is why I have a .org.
Mmh, wasn’t .ml a commie place? Maybe everything went better than expected
Personally I think more people should be aware of the evil company that is Freenom. (Not saying Meta is not evil.)
Or at least the people that unwittingly transact with them and give them attention / money.
What did they do?
Overall a sketchy company. The most nefarious of their practices is seizing the “free” domains they give away when it becomes popular.
you say we should be ware, yet you provide no information.
thanks for nothing
could have looked around this post or googled instead of being rude and being a lazy fuck
this is why instances should be abstracted away as underlying infrastructure and the users don’t have to think about “instances”. accounts and communities are replicated across servers.
I don’t understand why they went with free domains in the first place. Freenom is known for being unreliable.
Why is Meta suing Freenom?
Freenom gives away domains, many of which are used by phishers and other bad actors. Meta is suing them for not being responsive to their complaints about this. And I guess the injury inflicted on their users by phishers.
Wait, is it actually Feeenom’s fault? Isn’t it from whatever the server the malicious actions comes from?
For example I use one of their domains along with a Digital Ocean droplet, and I used it briefly to increase my seeding ratio by portforwarding my Qbittorrent port, after several months I got a letter from DO (which is amusing because my country couldn’t care less about torrenting lol) which I think is correct, I don’t think this is Feeenom’s fault.
I’m assuming they’ve run afoul of something similar to the DMCA safe harbor provisions. Basically under the DMCA a hosting provider isn’t responsible for violations due to user submitted content as long as they’re responsive to notifications and remove the content quickly when notified.
Now that applies to copyright not domain names, but I’m assuming there’s some kind of similar law at play. Meta has said that Freenom has been ignoring complaints about domains registered with them that are being used for phishing attacks. It could also be a DMCA issue because I think it does have some anti-domainsquating provisions in it that prevent you from E.G. registering say cocacola.ml as you aren’t the holder of that trademark.
In theory depending on where Freenom is run out of they might be able to just ignore the lawsuit, but it’s probable that doing so will get them blocked by various ISPs and organizations.
Thanks for the explanation I think being Freenom a “free” entity they could care less about complaints, but let’s see hot this evolves then.
Registrars not only have rights, but also responsibilities. They physically own the domain names and bear responsibility to ensure their domain names follow international rules.
Which is good because phishing sites suck especially when they start hitting high up on google searches
Yes.
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Is this because of the DoD typo leaks? Lol
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changeover provoked the leak.
that is nonsense. the leak was there before the change, but after the change consequences of the leak could be more dangerous.oh, you mean leak as in public knowledge of the problem and i am talking about the leak caused be emails ending up in wrong hands.
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No, just the contract ended
I wouldn’t be surprised. That was a pretty major mistake, so I was already kind of expecting there to be some changes with the .ml TLD. Didn’t expect this, though.
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Seriously it’s like no one knows how to use the internet (erm, to learn about teh innernets).
When in doubt, Wikipedia.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain?wprov=sfla1
I like how this mastodon app you are using actually says its name inside the dynamic island
Couldn’t have happened to a worse bunch of people lol
Yep, I’d just like to say fuck communists and let’s keep the Fediverse away from communist politics’ bullshit.
Communists are only about a partial shit-tier above Nazis. Both are in the tiers of shit, shit birds of a feather.
It’s almost like all authoritarianism is bad.
I concur
lol no
Are .ml accounts going to disappear? Is .world “safer” (if you don’t count the day accounts were compromised, because an exploit?).
Even better, join a smaller one to spread out and make use of the federated nature. Right now imagine
lemmy.mlandlemmy.worldfor whatever reason go down. Basically whole Lemmy is kinda fucked because it’s extremely centralized, even though decentralization is one of the points of Lemmy.We need a better way to advertise what servers to direct people to. Would be nice to circle through a big list of instances to evenly direct new users to
Yes, all those webs advertising all the lemmy instances look sketchy to me. >< Something official would be nice.
It’s hard to make anything “official” on the fediverse as things are distributed. Who makes the “official” determination for Lemmy? The biggest instances? The devs? Do we hold a vote across instances?
Yeah, that makes sense. Maybe an official blog of the biggest instances?
This is kinda something that affects a lot of fedi services, mastodon has mastodon.social, lemmy has lemmy.world, matrix has matrix.org, etc
People couldn’t care less if it’s centralized or not. People come for the community, not the tech behind it. Also people are lazy, they will use the easiest thing that comes up. Why should one go to another instance, if the one they are right now works great?
I am not saying that this system is bad. I am just saying that people will always take the easiest option there is.
Well, I’m not blaming the people, really. This is a communication issue, it should be well advertised to do it “correctly” and it should actually be the easiest option.
How I see it is that every decentralized system with people is going to form some sort of centralization unless you actively fight against it.
In Lemmy’s case, new people will check what are the biggest communities and go there, and since there are more people there, it attract even more people. More people, more communities in that instance.
Go with a .com ?
Why not
Zoidberg.ziplol…put that nonsense domain to some use.
Speaking of which… anyone want to register Appleinvoice.zip? Haha
I think any non-regional and non-special TLD is fine. Some have rules associated. I thought
.moviehad special rules about only lasting for a specific amount of time but it looks like I may have been wrong (not sure where I got the idea and I can’t find anything to back that up)..usyou have to be a US citizen for..devhas the “rule” that it is HTTPS only because*.devis in the HSTS always-on list by default but that’s not related to the domain itself.or .xyz
Note: some .xyz domains (6-9digit numbers) are amazingly cheap, cost about 1USD/yr.
This is why we host our instance on a .org. Honestly another huge blow for Lemmy. It doesn’t really inspire confidence in the platform. Hopefully after enough time passes smaller instances like us and the bigger ones left will have help up a good track record to inspire confidence again.
Major oof
