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Is it just the momentum and word of mouth, or are there improved features as well?

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[โ€“] FireTower -1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

From what I know they chose that specific domain because communists have a thing for Marx and Lenin (go figure). It might have been cheap/free but I'd imagine there's other cheap free domains they decided against in favor of .ml because of the connection.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's also that ML was a very cheap domain because Mali (the country which the TLD belongs to) was not actively policing the use of the TLD until recently.