Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
Mastodon instance Queer.af is shutting down because the country that provides the domain is now ruled by the Taliban.
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
People, think about the implications of a TLD before choosing your domain. Look up the organization that controls it and their restrictions on using it. Basic-ass research.
eh, they picked the worst registrar imaginable, and the reason most people dont use them happened.
kinda on them, sorry. maybe pick a more solid registrar in a more stable nation state.
my suggest is https://www.nearlyfreespeech.net
Anything with "free speech" in its name looks really shady these days
i get it, but this is not a new brand.
its a solid, local team of linux geeks that wanted pay-per-use service. it shows in their interface, i love it.
ive been with them for over 15 years. i chose them because they were one of the first to outright say "we wont do shit without a court order"
or you could, ya know, trust the taliban. for some reason.
Normally I don’t really appreciate hosting suggestions as most of them are pretty similar, but this looks really interesting and I’ll definitely take a look at them.
This headlines been out there for a week or so and every time I see it, seems like the taliban is after the admins or something. But it’s just about domain name.
Hey weren’t we having a problem with .ml? Did that ever get sorted?
That's an old story, and if I remember correctly the title was misleading, it was more of a decision of the instance admins to not renew it rather than the Taliban having anything to do with it
So, registering a new domain is too hard for them I guess as is relinking their instance under the new name
Changing the domain of an established fedi instance is very difficult, almost to the point of impossibility.
Try reading the article.