• edric@lemm.ee
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    5 months ago

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

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de
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    5 months 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.

    • thejevans@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 months 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.

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      5 months ago

      They used .af because in modern english, “af” stands for “as fuck”

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

    • thejevans@lemmy.mlOP
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      5 months 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@lazysoci.al
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        5 months 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.

        • thejevans@lemmy.mlOP
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          5 months 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.