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Kevin Beaumont

Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).

akko.erincandescent.net/notice
12 February at 12:06 | Open on cyberplace.social
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Andrew Prillaman

@GossiTheDog

It took me longer than it should have to realize they own the tld.

12 February at 12:27 | Open on theatl.social
Angus Mc Looping

@ThatPrilla @GossiTheDog in so into you, I immediately read "as fuck" and I didn't understand.

12 February at 12:46 | Open on anticapitalist.party
Aral Balkan

@GossiTheDog Alt-text:

queer.af has been suspended in the registry
and will no longer be included in zone file
generation. This means that any services
connected with this domain, such as
websites or email addresses will cease
working shortly.

Please contact your registrar if you have any
questions about this process. Your registrar's
details are as follows:

Name: Gandi SAS

(1/2)

@GossiTheDog Alt-text:

queer.af has been suspended in the registry
and will no longer be included in zone file
generation. This means that any services
connected with this domain, such as
websites or email addresses will cease
working shortly.

Please contact your registrar if you have any
questions about this process. Your registrar's
details are as follows:

12 February at 12:39 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
Aral Balkan

@GossiTheDog Alt-text (cont; 2/2):

Website: gandi.net
Email: support-en@support.gandi.net
Phone: +33.(1)70.37.78.80

Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51

Address: 63-65 boulevard Massena
Paris 75013

Ministry of Communications and IT
Mohammad Jan Khan Watt
Kabul
Afghanistan

12 February at 12:39 | Open on mastodon.ar.al
Hugo.T.N. Milan

@GossiTheDog Unfortunately no surprise. Hope they migrated beforehand.

12 February at 12:44 | Open on nerdculture.de
propapanda :verified:

@GossiTheDog

Welcome to Taliban IT services.

If you're part of a minority, press 1. Otherwise press 0.

A customer representative will be available shortly.

12 February at 12:47 | Open on pandas.social
Matthew Skelton

@GossiTheDog "who owns or controls the registry for the TLD" seems a fairly important consideration for domain names, tbf

12 February at 12:48 | Open on mastodon.social
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@matthewskelton @GossiTheDog Sadly this seems to be a thing a lot of people miss, I see a lot of commentary framing this as a Taliban specific issue, which in reality isn't. A lot of TLDs have specific requirements, and the country coded ones are often a lot more specific. In THIS case it's a Taliban issue, but it could just as well have been a domain being removed because the owner lives in the wrong place.

12 February at 13:04 | Open on mastodon.scot
Truls

@craftycat

Correct.

A recent example on how that can bite was Brexit. Owning a .eu domain requires to be resident inside the EU.

12 February at 13:15 | Open on mastodon.social
Jeena

@GossiTheDog i mean it's a cool tld but come on, once the Taliban took over the country the writing was on the wall.

12 February at 13:04 | Open on toot.jeena.net
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