Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)
from thejevans@lemmy.ml to technology@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 18:30
https://lemmy.ml/post/11820406

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HKayn@dormi.zone on 12 Feb 2024 18:44 next collapse

Not a fan of clickbait.

Edit: I was mistaken, my bad. I thought the article was referring to the admin deciding not to renew the queer.af domain, which was reported a few months ago.

thejevans@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 18:45 next collapse

Care to explain how this is clickbait?

nokturne213@sopuli.xyz on 12 Feb 2024 18:58 next collapse

Because the article title suggests they specifically targeted queer.af. A better title would have been something along the lines of “taliban take control of Afghanistan’s .af tld breaking websites including queer.af”

thejevans@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 19:07 collapse

Not really. The Taliban took control of .af a while ago. It wasn’t them taking control that broke things, it was that they specifically targeted certain domains and took them down using control they had secured previously, with queer.af being a great example.

chickenf622@sh.itjust.works on 12 Feb 2024 19:38 collapse

That isn’t what happened according to the queer.af admins. They decided to let the domain registration lapse cause they didn’t want to support that government fiscally even indirectly.

thejevans@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 19:40 collapse

Yes, and that would have happened months from now. The Taliban shut them down immediately.

chickenf622@sh.itjust.works on 12 Feb 2024 20:35 collapse

Oh I see, I misread the announcement then.

shootwhatsmyname@lemm.ee on 12 Feb 2024 19:05 collapse

the link offered me candy

Lmaydev@programming.dev on 12 Feb 2024 19:32 collapse

The title literally says exactly what happened though. You just added context that isn’t there. It doesn’t imply anything.

PoliticalCustard@lemmygrad.ml on 12 Feb 2024 20:29 next collapse

Giggling at the thought of the Taliban leadership being told what “af” means… they’re probably a bit miffed about that. Perhaps they’ll take it on the chin and set up taliban.af or something.

Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi on 12 Feb 2024 22:05 collapse

I doubt they have the sense of humour for that.

mihor@lemmy.ml on 12 Feb 2024 22:28 next collapse

LOL, serves them right! 😂

pastermil@sh.itjust.works on 13 Feb 2024 02:07 next collapse

Well, they literally signed up for this…

davel@lemmy.ml on 13 Feb 2024 02:15 collapse

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

You say that as if every other TLD does not also have its own particularities. Do some basic research on a TLD before committing to it. For example, .cat is not for your cat pics.