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jevans ⁂ to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago

Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

www.404media.co

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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance

www.404media.co

jevans ⁂ to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year ago
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After years in limbo, the Taliban recently began reoperating Afghanistan's .af TLD, which is breaking parts of the internet.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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  • 👍Maximum Derek👍
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    24•1 year ago

    I’m honestly surprised how long it took. As soon as I saw the server’s domain I thought, “that’s not going to go over well in Afghanistan.” I didn’t realize that the Taliban just hadn’t gotten around to reviewing their TLD yet.

  • lazynooblet
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    16•1 year ago

    What’s wrong with 2 letter country TLDs?

    .uk .de .us .nl etc all seem like okay candidates

    • @9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works
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      They used .af because in modern english, “af” stands for “as fuck”

      As in “queer. As fuck”, meaning VERY queer

    • jevans ⁂OP
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      15•1 year ago

      The problem is who controls them. The government of each country can decide at any moment that they want to take control of their TLD and remove any sites that they don’t like. It’s just not good practice if you want your site to stick around.

      • lazynooblet
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        4•1 year ago

        Right. So how do you differentiate between the 2-letters ones and 3+? Each TLD can have domains requisitiioned by a government, even if its indirect through ICANN.

        • jevans ⁂OP
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          4•1 year ago

          ICANN is certainly not perfect, but there is a difference between the automatic control that countries have over their ccTLD and the control they have through ICANN.

          • lazynooblet
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            1•1 year ago

            The US regularly seize domains, even those with foreign registrars. I don’t feel that any tld is immune from this. Sure there are some TLDs more at risk than others, like .af being in control of the Taliban, but I’d also say US controlled TLDs are not the least at risk.

            Some interesting articles about this

            https://www.securityweek.com/country-specific-web-domains-cant-be-seized-icann/

            https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites

            https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/

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    For what it’s worth, I guess they saw this coming.

  • HarkMahlberg
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    39•1 year ago

    The irony of this being crossposted from ML.

    • jevans ⁂OP
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      18•1 year ago

      Oh I’m fully aware haha, and the article is on a CO site. At the time I made my account, lemmy.ml seemed to be the best option, even with the poor TLD choice.

      • HarkMahlberg
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        Oh I’m not giving you grief, I just think it’s funny.

        the article is on a CO site

        🤌

  • @EdibleFriend@lemmy.world
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    43•1 year ago

    Yeah but now it’s owned by the Taliban meaning the queer is coming from inside the house.

    Gottem.

    • @AtmaJnana@lemmy.world
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      9•1 year ago

      Always has been. Bacha bazi is still common in Afghanistan.

  • @TheGrandNagus@lemmy.world
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    82•1 year ago

    I have nothing to add other than that’s an amazing instance name lol

  • @Zoldyck@lemmy.world
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    13•1 year ago

    Lmao

  • edric
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    57•1 year ago

    That’s some perfect irony. A queer instance using the Afghanistan domain.

    • unalivejoy
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      21•1 year ago

      And this was probably inevitable.

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