(not a joke, they seized the domain name).
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Honestly, why would you host a service like that under the Afghani TLD, knowing fully well what kind of country Afghanistan is these days?
"Shut down by the Taliban", sure, because you handed them the switch to shut down for no good reason.
Because the .af is funny. They likely knew it would get shut down eventually.
yup: https://akko.erincandescent.net/objects/478dec04-ea38-44b4-8b85-2336306f8fd5
Domain names do not need to be only 3 letters long.
queer.asfuck would be legitimate too or queer.assfuck if you want to
Neither of those are valid TLDs.
To be a bit pedantic about it, they are perfectly valid, they just don't exist.
To be even more pedantic, if it's not a resolvable TLD, then it is invalid.
Fair enough lol.
I don't think that's a valid TLD though. You'd need to pick from one of those: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/tlds-2012-02-25-en
You've never heard of the proud nation of Asfuckington?
London, Paris and Berlin all have their own TLDs, .london, .paris and .berlin respectively. Only the Austrian village of ~~Fucking~~ Fugging doesn't have its own TLD yet.
.ckis a valid TLD, but apparently you can only get second-level domain names. If that weren't the case, you could getqueer.asfu.ckI love that the first example on that page is .co.ck
This feels underutilized.
What is up with that last sentence? It reads like [email protected]
Basically just the punctuation that makes it read bad. But it's news to me that profanity is forbidden on the internet.
Holy shit,
nice.co.ckcould be yours for $586/two years: https://shop.gandi.net/en/domain/suggest?search=nice.co.ck&tld=ck. I guess you'd need to create a company called Nice and have it recognized by Cook IslandsIt might be hard to register a business named "Nice" in 2024 since it's a really generic word. Instead, try:
Another alternative would be to use .uk (there's already a lemmyf.uk)
There are some wild ones in there... imagine amazon.amazon
Most people don't think of countries when they see TLDs like AF. Most people wouldn't think .tv stands for Tuvalu.
Most don't know but the one who bought it would, although they probably did it anyway cause it looks cool. Same happened with fmhy but I am guessing the reasoning for that was the cost.
Many people who buy domains don't know, because many domains are so ubiquitous. Another good example most buyers don't know is the ".io"
Yeah I can see that but if it was me there's no way I am buying a domain without doing proper research. I can only imagine how big of a headache changing a domain would be.
Seems like this is less a "shut down by the Taliban" situation and more of a "we're choosing to stop paying registry fees that would have started going to the Taliban for a domain I had gifted to me a few years ago." Silly to have created a .af domain in the first place when this was a foreseeable turn of events, but maybe a bit more understandable.
From January 10 2024,
Sources,
https://web.archive.org/web/20240205181615/https://wedistribute.org/2024/01/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-to-taliban/
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/46e100de-c885-4772-842a-150be8e714e3.jpeg