Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided -- wisely -- not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
this post was submitted on 13 Jan 2024
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It was pretty clickbaity but damn I did laugh
The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.
So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, "The instance has been killed by the Taliban.".
No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.
The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.
This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?
No. The Admins killed the Instance.
Nope. That’s extremely misleading.
Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.
What a bad taste title
What a bad taste title
For who...The Taliban?
That it's objectively false to stir up attention
Your title implies it was directly killed, when it factually was not.
If you're on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.
Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn't kill it. Admin did.
Such a heinous click bait, I'm inclined to down vote the post. Definitely misleading af.
If the Taliban never got control of the .af domain in the first place. The Admin would have renew it. So the Taliban did kill it.
If the US hadn't pulled out, the Taliban wouldn't be in charge. So Trump killed it.
Indirectly doing things allows anyone to take the blame!
If the big bang had never occurred, queer.af would never have died.
Ergo: big bang killed queer.af.
QED
Another reason to not use ccTLDs.
If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.
that's why australia has their army of spiders
God help us all if we have to break out the Emus
What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?
Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren't just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for "funny" combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.
No need to limit yourself to US tld's, country ones for funny domains can be stable as well. My domain koffie.nu (coffee.now in Dutch), registered in '98, is still going strong. I just hope the rising sealevel won't wipe away the country any time soon.
Meer info over koffie zal in 1999 worden toegevoegd
Lies
Booooo misleading title
Why would you want to use .af TLD anyway?
They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.
queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!
It's like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.
I wouldn't be surprised if they didn't even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.
Same with Twitch.tv, the .tv apparently being the country code for Tuvala.