• freamon@endlesstalk.org
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      True. It might have been better though if the Lemmy devs hadn’t been such cheapskates and forked over the 10 bucks it takes to get a domain name that isn’t sketchy.

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          The parent domain was apparently well known to be a common host of phishing domains and scam sites. Free domains tend to attract those types, so that’s a good reason from the start not to use that if you want your site to be reliably accessible and findable on search engines.

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          My work uses zScaler for its Internet web filters. zScaler has everything *.ml blocked.

          So yeah, it’s fairly well-known to be sketchy.

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              Or maybe realising anything ending in .ml was most likely spam and if it caught the 5 legitimate Mali domains oh well, zero loss for anyone.

              Kinda like how I wouldn’t download a file from a .ru site.

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          I did, I just messed up and didn’t tell anybody. I’m sorry folks, this is on me.

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          Yes. Hosting a service in a country other than where a TLD is designated for is bad practice and common knowledge for any web developer

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        Pretty sure they went with .ml not for price reasons, but because they liked to pretend it stood for their political ideology.

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          Maybe. I read the idea about it standing for Marxist/Leninist, but there’s thousands of TLDs now - if you can get .diamonds and .world, there’s probably something that would evoke the same lefty idea (although maybe lemmy pre-dates the new domains, I don’t know)

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        lemmy.ml was a sort of prototype made by the devs of the lemmy software. It wasn’t really meant for widespread public adoption. So it makes sense that they went with a free domain.

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      “Every right”? No. They have the power to do so but that doesn’t make it right. They sold those domains fair and square. Contracts were signed.