• Balinares@pawb.socialEnglish
    8·
    2 years ago

    Could we, like, leave the clickbait headlines to reddit? Thanks. The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

    • Hal-5700X@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      02·
      2 years ago

      The queer.af admins just decided – wisely – not to renew the domain considering who the fee would go to.

      So the Taliban being in control of the .af domain. Made the admins not to renew the instance. To put in away, “The instance has been killed by the Taliban.”.

      • FlickOfTheBean@lemmy.worldEnglish
        3·
        2 years ago

        No. The instance being killed by the taliban is the opposite of that is happening here.

        The taliban has done nothing, in this case. The admins of the instance have chosen not to keep the instance due to not wanting to fund the taliban in anyway.

        This phrasing fucks up which way the action flows, which is important for a headline to get right to remain accurate to the story. Does that make sense?

      • heyoni@lemm.ee
        English
        2·
        2 years ago

        Nope. That’s extremely misleading.

  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    Reading that headline scared me. For a moment I thought the instance owner was killed by the Taliban.

  • iso@lemy.lolEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    Another reason to not use ccTLDs.

    • Quokka@quokk.auEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      If the Taliban take over Australia I’ve got bigger issues to worry about than my domain name.

    • radix@lemm.eeEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      What alternatives are there? Just the big .org, .com, .net ones?

      • Deceptichum@kbin.social
        1·
        2 years ago

        So many now, it’s opened up to at least like 100 or more words now.

      • Carighan Maconar@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

        Just use .net or so. Or make it dependent on where you host, so .fi or .de or .us or whatever. TLDs aren’t just for lulz, and getting specific country ones just for “funny” combinations just leads to stuff like this happening.

        • TheInsane42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          No need to limit yourself to US tld’s, country ones for funny domains can be stable as well. My domain koffie.nu (coffee.now in Dutch), registered in '98, is still going strong. I just hope the rising sealevel won’t wipe away the country any time soon.

  • CrypticCoffee@lemmy.mlEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    If you’re on the country code, you open yourself up to risk. ml has been a risk before.

    Your headline is misleading though. Taliban didn’t kill it. Admin did.

    • Victor@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Such a heinous click bait, I’m inclined to down vote the post. Definitely misleading af.

    • Hal-5700X@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      01·
      2 years ago

      If the Taliban never got control of the .af domain in the first place. The Admin would have renew it. So the Taliban did kill it.

  • cum@lemmy.cafeEnglish
    1·
    2 years ago

    What a bad taste title

    • ApostleO@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      They almost certainly picked it just for the joke.

      queer.af = Queer AF = Queer as fuck!

      It’s like how popular the TLD of Guernsey (.gg) is with gaming websites.

      I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even realize what country code the TLD was when they registered it.