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Taliban Shuts Down 'queer.af' Domain, Breaking Mastodon Instance (www.404media.co)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The US regularly seize domains, even those with foreign registrars. I don't feel that any tld is immune from this. Sure there are some TLDs more at risk than others, like .af being in control of the Taliban, but I'd also say US controlled TLDs are not the least at risk.

Some interesting articles about this

https://www.securityweek.com/country-specific-web-domains-cant-be-seized-icann/

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_In_Our_Sites

https://www.wired.com/2012/03/feds-seize-foreign-sites/