With several Lemmy instances using the .ml TLD I’ve seen people mention others being risky as well. Which should be avoided?
Basically any 2-letter TLD should be avoided unless you live in that country.
If you want to be clever, use subdomains and pick one of the new TLDs. For instance, ban.anal.ink, is like $5.
Banana link or ban anal ink?
As the admin of lemmy.inbutts.lol I would have thought my position on that subject would be clear.
I can see why anal ink could be controversial.
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Just to add another concrete example, I saw a toot recently that
.afmay be risky, as some countries are beginning to implement embargoes; the person who had a domain there may be losing it soonYou could also choose a 5-10 digit .xyz domain, those cost
$€0.85Except for the only one I’d want:
The first year. Then it’s likely $12/year.
If you’re hosting an instance on a risky TLD and you wanna migrate, probably best to close signups now and disallow any new communities from being created on there
On an unrelated note, who is sitting on lemmy.games? We need a gaming dedicated instance. I got lemmygames.net but lemmy.games would make me happy.
Personally I would prefer if we didn’t use “Lemmy” for everything. I really like programming.dev as a software development based instances. Also makes it less confusing if an instance decides to change to kbin or a future compatible server.
Some TLDs that aren’t country codes but also aren’t very useful or popular will sometimes be blanket blocked by institutions, on the theory that there’s so many more garbage malware C&Cs or whatever than actual useful sites that it makes sense to ban the whole thing. So you might not want to go with
.bingoor.restor anything with no perceivable use.A big one is the .nu domain, which is extremely popular in Sweden (since “nu” means “now” in Swedish).
It’s currently controlled by the same large non-profit that controls .se (Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS), but Niue has been wanting control of it for decades. It’s a complicated issue since .nu addresses have become incredibly important to Swedish Internet infrastructure.
Litigation was launched in 2020 but I’m not aware of any news since then.
familyphotos.zip
Monthlyreportsv2.zip
.biz always seemed a bit sketchy. Would probably also avoid .nk
The TLD for the DPRK is .kp, not .nk
