Twinkee

Silly question, but exactly how bad is the loss of the domain name for an instance, on a scale from "every connected instance has to refederate to the new domain" to "instance is toast due to broken auth/certs/etc."?

Man, fuck the Taliban

surely this has to be the worst thing they've done

is it bad I read this in hbomberguy's "sell them to who Ben? Fuckling Aquaman?" voice

I love imperialism under the auspices of thumbing one's nose at autocrats. That's what the second gulf war was about I think

seriously tho, like... do people not get that they're grabbing names for puns that people in the host countries then can't claim. Not that afghanistan will allow queer.af locally, but... the other ones?

single word domains especially

sigh.

I'm sad they lost it this way but what a rationale

i thought about trying to respond to someone dunking on this but. i figured it’s a lost cause. godspeed 🫡

I might be a little blind here but other than specifically targeting queer people, what points to this being the Taliban? The registrars' office is French. There's an old listing associated with Mohammed Jan Khan Watt's name linking to the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan but that stopped existing in 2021.

I'm not 100% sure how international DNS addresses work but maybe they just didn't contact the registrars office first?

I think I speak for everyone when I say: LOL, and, I hope it is not too presumptuous to add, LMAO. Love to protest the taliban by...giving them money for website

Because I don't have a Masto account: Could you pass along that the URL on the main alioth.systems page needs updating? Granted they've probably got bigger things to deal with right now, but just in case they forgor

also is that domain an Elite reference?

i just. i fuckin wish people would take the social infrastructure they run seriously enough to not gamble with it.

thank you for the context

i wonder how Google Domains stopping existing as a product will affect the .dev TLD