Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
Queer.af is Shutting Down, Due to Taliban
When registering a country code domain, keep in mind where the domain is being registered. A shift in government or geopolitics can have serious consequences.
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That sucks but it's also funny because it's a pun.
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Can we stop for a minute and appreciate the fact that to this day, a queer community uses domain of freaking AFGHANISTAN? :D
That by itself is based, although yeah, registrar fees issues are real.
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Unfortunately in the fediverse changing your domain isn't really possible. You basically have to start over.
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That green pixel tho. I know it's not the point at all, but I can't unseen it.
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when you're so queer you can't even get your flag straight smh
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Actually, that's probably my fault, I had to edit the graphic on a phone, and don't have the steadiest hands.
I'll fix it when I get home.
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Its just occurred to me that the pride flag is a bunch of STRAIGHT lines. I am amused.
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@deadsuperhero
What a good report!
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That’s an old story, and if I remember correctly the title was misleading, it was more of a decision of the instance admins to not renew it rather than the Taliban having anything to do with it
Yeah, they didn't want their money going to the Taliban, and it's a little shaky as to whether the Taliban's Ministry of IT would take a stricter content enforcement on their ccTLD. For a while, it was only possible to renew domains, not buy new ones.
Still, I stuck with the title because the Taliban is still the reason.
the misleading title you are remembering was closer to “queer.af is shutting down, killed by the taliban”
It's more like just because you can make a funny domain name out of a specific top level domain like .af Make sure some country doesn't have dibs on it first.
Like it wouldn't be smart to start a business selling che Guevara merch at comra.de.
I think "funny" names involving TLDs as a whole just need to be more careful. It should never be what you expect.
Like, if someone from the US told me to go a website called "comrade" to buy merch, I'd expect
comrade.com. To get me to go to their intended address they'd need to be a German telling me to go to "comra". That's utterly unintuitive as far as verbal communication goes.Why would Germany of all places ban a shop selling Che Guevara merch?
I hope no country has dibs on .rodeo