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[-] kaito@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] Gamey@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year ago

The domain bs is a interesting case of scummy practices in general, .tv was missused in a similar way with awful contracts, essentially scamming a already increadably poor country!

[-] abbotsbury@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

Didn't Tuvalu massively benefit from being assigned a TLD that is popular? I read they were able to build an airport with .tv money

[-] Gamey@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago

Yea, they managed to get it back at some point but it was under external control with close to no benefit for them for a long time!

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[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 28 points 1 year ago

Umm with no warning whatsoever?? That's quite insane.

[-] axus@lemm.ee 19 points 1 year ago

A week ago I literally read articles about how .ml was switching to the (Russian-influenced) Mali government in a week, and did not even think about how lemmy.ml would be affected

[-] teydam@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

.ml was a terrible name anyways. People just kept saying everyone was a tannkie whether or not true. Not the image that's going to help you grow or your ideological goals imo

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[-] Bombastic@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago

Is this because of the DoD typo leaks? Lol

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[-] LordShrek@lemmy.world 22 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] httpjames@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago

I don't understand why they went with free domains in the first place. Freenom is known for being unreliable.

[-] Jmr@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

This is why I have a .org.

[-] blockhouse@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago

The Mali government taking control of the .ml tld probably has something to do with the fact that hundreds of thousands of US military emails have been accidentally sent to Mali by users who type .ml instead of .mil in the address field.

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[-] DaveNa@lemmy.ml 19 points 1 year ago

Are .ml accounts going to disappear? Is .world "safer" (if you don't count the day accounts were compromised, because an exploit?).

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