After years in limbo, the Taliban recently began reoperating Afghanistan's .af TLD, which is breaking parts of the internet.

Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

  • davel [he/him]English
    10•10 months ago

    Do not use 2 letter country TLDs!

    You say that as if every other TLD does not also have its own particularities. Do some basic research on a TLD before committing to it. For example, .cat is not for your cat pics.

  • Kayn
    -13•10 months ago

    Not a fan of clickbait.

    Edit: I was mistaken, my bad. I thought the article was referring to the admin deciding not to renew the queer.af domain, which was reported a few months ago.

      • nocturne
        -5•10 months ago

        Because the article title suggests they specifically targeted queer.af. A better title would have been something along the lines of “taliban take control of Afghanistan’s .af tld breaking websites including queer.af”

        • thejevansOP
          19•10 months ago

          Not really. The Taliban took control of .af a while ago. It wasn’t them taking control that broke things, it was that they specifically targeted certain domains and took them down using control they had secured previously, with queer.af being a great example.

          • @[email protected]
            -4•10 months ago

            That isn’t what happened according to the queer.af admins. They decided to let the domain registration lapse cause they didn’t want to support that government fiscally even indirectly.

    • @[email protected]
      11•10 months ago

      The title literally says exactly what happened though. You just added context that isn’t there. It doesn’t imply anything.