Gregory's ServerWe got an email from the Serbian Registry of Internet Domain Names (RNIDS), the organisation that is responsible for the `.rs` top-level domain.
Looks like they are a big fan of Rust. ๐
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 @lindsey "Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds, I must inform you that the package you shipped to my address has not arrived as scheduled." Yeah, that works! ๐  @rust In this case it seems to work out alright, but in general one must be careful with country TLDs and their registrars, witness what happened to queer.af. https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/12/24071036/queer-af-mastodon-taliban-shut-down-afghanistan   @Bahco @rust it's a nitpick but *geographical* TLDs. .eu has its own set of problems. https://flameeyes.blog/2018/04/10/the-dot-eu-kerfuffle/?mtm_campaign=social&mtm_kwd=mastodon    @craftyguy @rust Projects that don't want to be under a country-TLD can use a different TLD.  @leeloo @craftyguy How about me? I can be trusted with control over a ccTLD or three. I just need to learn how this DNS thingy works first, then I'm all set. @leeloo @craftyguy @rust ICANN, but there shouldn't be country code TLDs in the first place because countries are extremely temporary structures and can collapse at any time, and the recognition of some is a highly political statement? Language code TLDs would've worked just fine @leeloo @craftyguy @rust How long an "average country" lasts is fully irrelevant to the point. Public organizations are a horrible justification for country TLDs, .gov exists and it should be opened to non-US entities. The only actual unique purpose country TLDs serve is providing more local and unique domains and language code TLDs do that far better while actually communicating something about the website. Multi-language blogs already have .blog, commercial websites have .com @lunarna @craftyguy @rust @craftyguy yeah because random for-profit companies in random countries are generally much better at serving the public interest than publicly owned infrastructure with democratic oversight.  @craftyguy @rust As the alternative would be to give either the US government, or whoever can pay the most money, or whoever is chosen by people originally set up by the US DoD and then spin off, control of top level domains, it doesn't seem so bad to me. @craftyguy @rust You don't know nothing about who's in power in Serbia at the moment, do you? @craftyguy @rust I think it's a perfectly reasonable choice that TLDs that are literally the ISO country code of a country should be controlled (directly or otherwise) by that country's government. If you don't like it, there are many non-country TLDs to choose from.  @craftyguy You erroneously assume that RNIDS is a governmental entity. It is not. https://www.rnids.rs/en/conference-co-founders/co-founders-and-authorised-representatives  @rust Wow, that's genuinely awesome. Greetings from Serbia. Makes me happy to read that they were so welcoming.   @rust ccTLDs that are also programming langugage file extensions @rust Serbian RNIDS is (so far) one of those rare truly great things here in Serbia.  OMG Replace '.rs' with '.tv' and 'Rust' with 'TV shows' and imagine getting this letter from Tuvalu. @rust I was almost worried for a second there. I think they appreciate the business well.. when my friends ask me if its hard to get into, i tell them there is no learning curve. ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ    @rust Iโm jealous and sad that the Paraguayan government does not feel the same way about Python. ๐ @rust ... or could it be that they know exactly how the universe works. And that they realize that they make a fortune selling all the .rs domains. A fortune they cannot make by selling domains to their population of about 7mio people. ๐ |
@rust I plan to start prepending "Being fully aware that we have no control over how the Universe works or what the future holds," to all my emails.