Gregory's ServerQueer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban (not a joke, they seized the domain name).
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@ThatPrilla @GossiTheDog in so into you, I immediately read "as fuck" and I didn't understand.  @GossiTheDog Alt-text (cont; 2/2): Website: https://www.gandi.net Fax: +33.(1)43.73.18.51 Address: 63-65 boulevard Massena Ministry of Communications and IT  Welcome to Taliban IT services. If you're part of a minority, press 1. Otherwise press 0. A customer representative will be available shortly. @GossiTheDog "who owns or controls the registry for the TLD" seems a fairly important consideration for domain names, tbf @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. Correct. A recent example on how that can bite was Brexit. Owning a .eu domain requires to be resident inside the EU.  @GossiTheDog i mean it's a cool tld but come on, once the Taliban took over the country the writing was on the wall. |
@GossiTheDog what a week