Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali?
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 months agoInterestingly some instances got shut down by the Mali govt, no idea why this one gets to stay
Comment on Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali?
ryannathans@aussie.zone 4 months agoInterestingly some instances got shut down by the Mali govt, no idea why this one gets to stay
pop@lemmy.ml 4 months ago
The .ml ccTLD was on a contract to a company called Freenom in the Netherlands until last year, then it went back to the Mali government. Freenom gave away domains for free until then. After the switch, the owners who didn’t outright buy it lost their domains.