I feel like I accidentally thought-willed this into existence. I was randomly like “wtf is .ml anyway?” and looked it up to find it was Mali and apparently registering a domain was free. I was like “oh cool. Guess they either don’t see value in the domain or just don’t give a shit. But… what if they suddenly DO give a shit?”
I mentally shrugged it off because I know there are certain rules around domains that the world agrees on. Yoinking a domain without going through the process seems to be grounds for… well I guess that’s the problem. No enforcement? I mean really what can the world even do besides be pissy and move on? Seems like a bad play on Mali’s part anyway. There’s no telling how popular lemmy can or will get. Instead of yoinking domains back the capitalist thing to do 🧐 is simply extort the owners. Tell them that when times for renewal, in a year or whatever, prices will be set based on popularity. Basically the way other domains are bought and sold. It’s a shitty tactic, but we live in a shitty world, and free domains was probably always too good to be true if you’re honest with yourself. I feel like the domain lemmygrad.ml is probably not worth that much though. It’s only value is literally just this community here which has I’d say zero value for advertising and such. Just thought of consciousness typing now.
On a side note though, taking away the .ml which could he interpreted as Marxism-Leninism (and I absolutely always read it that way in my mind- sorry Mali), really sucks.
Alternative domain choice number one, imo, is of course .su . Yes, that is indeed the Soviet Union top level domain. Incredibly interesting factoid that the Soviet Union was around just barely long enough to be assigned its official top level domains (you know, like .us, .fr, .ru, etc.). Now I believe the Russian federation controls the .su and I don’t know the rules around obtaining one. Some countries are weird about it. Like to get a .us domain (they are very cheap) you have to agree to have all your information publicly available and not hidden behind the usual messages, whatever the wording is exactly, like “on file with the cloudflare registrar.” But anyway, .su is cool. Not as cool as .ml though. Feels bad.
Edit: for anyone interested, I went through the purchase process for a .su domain and they do indeed have additional requirements typical to country TLDs. You have to provide a valid Russian passport number. Interesting and disappointing (for non Russians anyway I guess).
I was also looking into this recently and DDR almost got a domain as well. Would love to have a .dd domain these days in Germany. I also considered an .su domain but didn’t get as far as you did just based on the price alone.
In terms of lemmygrad an AES domain (cn, vn cu for example), or if that’s also too risky one of the newer TLDs that are more or less free to take for whatever a person wants.
Would be funny if the Free Democratic Countries block access due to the domain. I think it’s also important to consider that the main instance could also get revoked and that could be annoying for the rare non-Nazi communities over there.
I figured there was probably a work around. It’s not like Russia has some vested interest in defending the glory of the .su domain from anyone. I briefly looked into it but decided “nah” and also “nah” to keeping it in my post because, I dunno, just felt like a shithole to go down.
Wikipedia also says .su is often used by cyber criminals, so, you know. Take that entire site with a grain of salt especially on fringe or niche thing like the .ml or .su domains lol
“The .su TLD is known for usage by cybercriminals.”
Literally the first entry under the facts stuff at the top. It’s kind of hilarious but not surprising. “Oh those crazy Russians with their crime!… of the cyber type!”
I wonder how many crimes are cited for the .us TLD 🤔
That’s actually just funny. I assume they didn’t write that to be humorous, but mentioning that people from the US side keep fucking up and sending emails to random .ml addresses instead of .mil is fucking funny. Hey crazy consideration for their IT team from a non-IT guy: don’t let people fucking email to any other TLD besides .mil or .gov or whatever. I mean that’s if I actually cared about them emailing secrets to Mali by accident which I don’t and it’s not Mali’s fault anyway.
I feel like I accidentally thought-willed this into existence. I was randomly like “wtf is .ml anyway?” and looked it up to find it was Mali and apparently registering a domain was free. I was like “oh cool. Guess they either don’t see value in the domain or just don’t give a shit. But… what if they suddenly DO give a shit?”
I mentally shrugged it off because I know there are certain rules around domains that the world agrees on. Yoinking a domain without going through the process seems to be grounds for… well I guess that’s the problem. No enforcement? I mean really what can the world even do besides be pissy and move on? Seems like a bad play on Mali’s part anyway. There’s no telling how popular lemmy can or will get. Instead of yoinking domains back the capitalist thing to do 🧐 is simply extort the owners. Tell them that when times for renewal, in a year or whatever, prices will be set based on popularity. Basically the way other domains are bought and sold. It’s a shitty tactic, but we live in a shitty world, and free domains was probably always too good to be true if you’re honest with yourself. I feel like the domain lemmygrad.ml is probably not worth that much though. It’s only value is literally just this community here which has I’d say zero value for advertising and such. Just thought of consciousness typing now.
On a side note though, taking away the .ml which could he interpreted as Marxism-Leninism (and I absolutely always read it that way in my mind- sorry Mali), really sucks.
Alternative domain choice number one, imo, is of course .su . Yes, that is indeed the Soviet Union top level domain. Incredibly interesting factoid that the Soviet Union was around just barely long enough to be assigned its official top level domains (you know, like .us, .fr, .ru, etc.). Now I believe the Russian federation controls the .su and I don’t know the rules around obtaining one. Some countries are weird about it. Like to get a .us domain (they are very cheap) you have to agree to have all your information publicly available and not hidden behind the usual messages, whatever the wording is exactly, like “on file with the cloudflare registrar.” But anyway, .su is cool. Not as cool as .ml though. Feels bad.
Edit: for anyone interested, I went through the purchase process for a .su domain and they do indeed have additional requirements typical to country TLDs. You have to provide a valid Russian passport number. Interesting and disappointing (for non Russians anyway I guess).
I was also looking into this recently and DDR almost got a domain as well. Would love to have a .dd domain these days in Germany. I also considered an .su domain but didn’t get as far as you did just based on the price alone.
In terms of lemmygrad an AES domain (cn, vn cu for example), or if that’s also too risky one of the newer TLDs that are more or less free to take for whatever a person wants.
Personaly I vote .cu, if it is able to be gotten, and it follows Cuban Guidelines to get. if I had to pick a first choice.
Would be funny if the Free Democratic Countries block access due to the domain. I think it’s also important to consider that the main instance could also get revoked and that could be annoying for the rare non-Nazi communities over there.
You can buy one on Beget without any of that.
I figured there was probably a work around. It’s not like Russia has some vested interest in defending the glory of the .su domain from anyone. I briefly looked into it but decided “nah” and also “nah” to keeping it in my post because, I dunno, just felt like a shithole to go down.
I looked it up too and was surprised this site even existed because Wikipedia said only third-level domains were allowed
Like lemmy.grad.ml?
Wikipedia also says .su is often used by cyber criminals, so, you know. Take that entire site with a grain of salt especially on fringe or niche thing like the .ml or .su domains lol
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.su
“The .su TLD is known for usage by cybercriminals.”
Literally the first entry under the facts stuff at the top. It’s kind of hilarious but not surprising. “Oh those crazy Russians with their crime!… of the cyber type!”
I wonder how many crimes are cited for the .us TLD 🤔
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ml
Here’s the page if you want to see. Obviously needs editing
Also, lol that they’re scared about .mil vs .ml because “Mali is a close ally of Russia”
That’s actually just funny. I assume they didn’t write that to be humorous, but mentioning that people from the US side keep fucking up and sending emails to random .ml addresses instead of .mil is fucking funny. Hey crazy consideration for their IT team from a non-IT guy: don’t let people fucking email to any other TLD besides .mil or .gov or whatever. I mean that’s if I actually cared about them emailing secrets to Mali by accident which I don’t and it’s not Mali’s fault anyway.