• Boforn@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Well, this is just weird. When I was migrating from Reddit to this fediverse world I chose .ml and thought it was short for “machine learning” which seemed as a cool domain for me at the time.

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      FYI, two letter TLDs are country/region/jurisdiction specific. There’s an ISO standard for that.

      • .tv Tuvalu
      • .me Montenegro
      • .fm (Federation of) Micronesia

      Some countries append additional modifiers to classify their uses:

      • .uk United Kingdom
      • .co.uk Company

      Three or more are generic (traditional or new)

      • .com, .net, .org, …

      In some cases, Uncle Sam said “first!” and it stuck.

      • .edu Education (MURICA)
      • .mil Military (MURRICA)
      • .gov Government (MURRRICA)

      Just like what happens with Mali, what some silicon valley hipsters decide as a ‘fun’ acronym is just that, a fun thought. If the corresponding government decides to take away a specific domain, they probably can.

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        .mil Military (MURRICA)

        That is what made this whole .ml problem. Some people have apparently accidentally leaked American state secrets to Mali by typo.

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          That’s a poor excuse. If something is secret or higher it has a different TLD. The SIPRnet uses .smil for example. There are also tools at the boundaries that don’t allow going from SIPR to NIPR unless they meet specific criteria. Basically you can only leak those secrets accidentally if they were already on a system they shouldn’t have been on.

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            Additionally, competent IT would make this fuck up impossible. I’m shocked that they didn’t whitelist TLDs and block all others.

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        • .edu Education (MURICA)

        .edu is not only american. For example I know many schools in France have .edu domains and emails, and I believe it’s the case in many more countries.

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        Thanks for the clarification. If this instance goes down please someone start an ‘‘lemmy.ai’’ instance. I want to follow the same logic that I went with since the beginning.

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      No, it’s Mali.

      The rumour is that lemmy devs chose it to mean “marxist leninist” but I think it’s more likely they wanted a free domain name.

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        The rumor is fake, the devs have said it multiple times. If they would have wanted to do some funny Marxism meme they would have used .su

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          Maybe they didn’t choose it for that, but to be fair they are definitely and admittedly Marxist-Leninists

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            Yes, as there are plenty of other developers who are openly liberals or some other flavour of capitalism. You don’t need to agree with the developers political choices all the time to use their software.

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            Yeah they are, so if they did choose .ml for that reason they would have no problem admitting it also. So it’s pretty clear that they just wanted a free domain.

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      I mean, I knew it was a country top level domain but I was told Dessalines intended the “ml” as an abbreviation for “marxist-leninist”

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          Some Lemmygrad dude bragged about that… Should have known it was wrong.

          Anyways, thx for the clarification