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Comment by dcow

18 hours ago

I always thought these TLDs were a flight risk to be used in any serious capacity. What if the random state decides you/your business are in violation of [whatever] and kick you off?

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sneak  11 hours ago

My latest domain (five chars!) that I am actually using recently went down because my registrar is (was?) in Gaza.

The registry thankfully was able to sort it out and I was able to get it back and registered with a regisrar not currently being actively genocided.

I felt like a real dick, emailing people in Gaza in 2026 how to renew my domain.

vasco  16 hours ago

What if an elephant steps on the power cable to the server room?

  • aloisklink  14 hours ago

    The owners of `queer.af` thought that AF only meant “as f*ck”, without realizing that AF also happens to the be the ISO 3166 code for a country controlled by the Taliban, who didn’t like their domain name [1].

    Brits that had `.eu` domains lost their domains due to Brexit [2] (unless they had some other EEA ties).

    And if the Chagos deal goes ahead [3] and the British Indian Ocean Territory ceases to exist, then all `.io` domains might disappear too (although considering that `.su`/Soviet Union domains are still a thing, they probably would have stayed around).

    [1]: https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-b...

    [2]: https://www.gov.uk/guidance/registering-and-renewing-eu-doma...

    [3]: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce9m47y1ez2o

    • Symbiote  12 hours ago

      Assuming the British/American air base remains on some agreement with the Mauritian government, then the Chagos Islands may remain as a special territory of Mauritius, justifying the continual existence of an ISO 3166 code for it.

    • reddalo  12 hours ago

      >Brits that had `.eu` domains lost their domains due to Brexit

      Ouch, that must've hurt. Brexit is the most stupid thing that Britain has ever imposed on itself.