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Olivier Mehani

@jacqueline I've always had this uneasy sense that if you used a funky TLD, you risked being at the whims of the registrar and/or the country they operate from. I'm even viewing .io suspiciously, but I guess even .com or .net may be at risk (ok, that's a large stretch of the imagination [not actually certain what the bylaws are there])

Hindsight 20/20, .af in a more, let's say, "colloquial" meaning was a sitting duck, even without the anti-queer bigotry. Do we know if other domains were similarly impacted?

Can one ever truly own a domain name?

12 February at 11:34 | Wall-to-wall | Open on piaille.fr
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Rune :BlobhajShock:

@shtrom @jacqueline even if you get your own TLD you're fully at the mercy of a huge pile of rules that ICANN will enforce on you. All domains are just borrowed or rented.

12 February at 12:23 | Open on gts.fedi.tax
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@shtrom @jacqueline one owns the domain name, but not the TLD. Different TLDs have different requirements, can be based on where you live, your nationality or the content you host on there. It's really worth doing some, research before picking, especially when using ccTLDs which are reserved for specific countries.

12 February at 12:45 | Open on mastodon.scot
AzureArmageddon

@shtrom @jacqueline Can one ever truly own land? Only so far as the law will defend your ownership.

12 February at 13:00 | Open on mastodon.online
Olivier Mehani
AzureArmageddon

@shtrom Don't need insight if you've had government do a little more than encourage you to sell farmland for a highway project, for example. Not that it's happened to me, only that it's happened to some folk.

(Edit: They don't call 'em **land-rushes** for **domain** names whenever ICANN makes new ones for nothing.)

12 February at 13:16 | Open on mastodon.online
Q ✨

@shtrom @jacqueline anything that isn’t a country TLD has rather strict rules set by ICANN, a registry operator can’t just nick your domain unless you do crime

12 February at 13:18 | Open on glauca.space
rugk

@q
You realize what is a crime totally depends on what the country defines as such? That may exactly be what happened here.
@shtrom @jacqueline

12 February at 21:45 | Open on chaos.social
PJ Coffey

@shtrom @jacqueline

D-: .io is for the Chagos Islands. I'll say it involves Britain and the US and then I'll leave you to decide if you want to know. It's pretty horrible and relatively recent so you might not want to.

12 February at 13:19 | Open on mastodon.ie
left-wing math nerd

@Homebrewandhacking @shtrom @jacqueline it’s really awful

I wish people would stop using the .io TLD.

12 February at 15:51 | Open on mastodon.sdf.org
PJ Coffey

@cohomologyisFUN

Yeah, it's pretty sickening. In my industry, one of the top independent websites for distribution uses the .io domain. I thought it was one of the new non-geographics but it is not.

@shtrom @jacqueline

12 February at 16:49 | Open on mastodon.ie
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@shtrom Not a clearnet domain, no. You *can* own an .onion (or similar) though, as all you need for that is a copy of your generated keys. Of course, this will limit the audience of your service somewhat... so renting a clearnet domain on top of the one you actually own is probably a good idea if you're trying to have global appeal for anything.

12 February at 13:21 | Open on girlcock.club
CEO of Anti-Clock Society

@shtrom @jacqueline I'd love if everyone who is thoughtlessly doing a colonialism by using a .io domain faced some consequence for it.

12 February at 13:28 | Open on floss.social
Kern 🏳️‍🌈

@shtrom@piaille.fr you can never truly own a domain name, only rent them perpetually, and IMO that's one of the most egregious and overlooked downsides to the modern internet
I'm not sure if one day domain registrars will be a thing of the past or not. Even like an IPFS based web will have human readable domain names pointing to IPFS addresses which means somebody has to pay for name servers

12 February at 14:10 | Open on hol.ogra.ph
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