Submitted 8 months ago by thejevans@lemmy.ml to technology@beehaw.org
https://www.404media.co/taliban-shuts-down-queer-af-domain-breaking-mastodon-instance/
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11820406
Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!
The headline is misleading. The Taliban did not shut down queer.af. The team behind the instance decided to move away from the domain so as to not support the Taliban through domain fees. Source: wedistribute.org/…/queer-af-is-shutting-down-due-…
The article explains that, yes, they did plan to move…in April. The Taliban government did, in fact, shut them down ahead of that schedule.
'idiots sign domain over to government, confused when government shuts down domain'
Damn! Using .af for a LGBT+ site is insane! The country could have redirected the domain to their own servers and started learning the personal details of those on the site who I imagine wouldn’t be terribly thrilled having an anti-LGBT+ government learn their personal information (namely information not displayed publicly). Specifically, they could put their own servers in front of the domain so they can decrypt it, then forward the traffic on to the legitimate servers, allowing them to get login information and any other data which the user sends or receives.
Would they care enough to do all of this, though?
Why not use two letter country tlds? I have a few .uk ones.
What happened to .su domains though?
tal@lemmy.today 8 months ago
Well, that’s ironic.
thejevans@lemmy.ml 8 months ago
It’s not lost on me lol. The news site is also a .CO domain.