Wait, this can’t be, because the current line is that .ml doesn’t stand for “marxist-leninist” as they claimed 2y ago, instead now in a post by desantis or desalinator (whatever his name is) it says they chose .ml because it was “free” and “buying them [domains] feels like acquiescing to the digital enclosure of the commons.”
Every domain is paid. But if you bought it from an authorized reseller who’s authorization is revoked, you’re still screwed. Mali is the true owner of all registered domains in its country.
Correct, I also read that the .ml addresses were free, but in hindsight this downtime is a bigger cost to bear than the $10/year or whatever it would cost to properly pay for a domain.
In hindsight, yes. But there was no indiciation ahead of time that this situation would happen or was likely to happen. In fact, there was no more reason to believe a free ccTLD was any more likely than a paid ccTLD to cause a problem. The problem arises because a ccTLD’s host country can choose to remove any domain it wants, paid or not. One could argue that using a ccTLD at all was a mistake, but you’d have to look at precedent for ccTLD’s country’s doing this and see if it happens often or not.
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I heard it isn’t. Or at least not as much, because lemmy.ml is a paid domain.
Wait, this can’t be, because the current line is that .ml doesn’t stand for “marxist-leninist” as they claimed 2y ago, instead now in a post by desantis or desalinator (whatever his name is) it says they chose .ml because it was “free” and “buying them [domains] feels like acquiescing to the digital enclosure of the commons.”
So, is it free or paid?
Every domain is paid. But if you bought it from an authorized reseller who’s authorization is revoked, you’re still screwed. Mali is the true owner of all registered domains in its country.
That’s not entirely true. .ml domains we’re being given away for free.
The company giving them away is being sued.
By Meta.
Correct, I also read that the .ml addresses were free, but in hindsight this downtime is a bigger cost to bear than the $10/year or whatever it would cost to properly pay for a domain.
In hindsight, yes. But there was no indiciation ahead of time that this situation would happen or was likely to happen. In fact, there was no more reason to believe a free ccTLD was any more likely than a paid ccTLD to cause a problem. The problem arises because a ccTLD’s host country can choose to remove any domain it wants, paid or not. One could argue that using a ccTLD at all was a mistake, but you’d have to look at precedent for ccTLD’s country’s doing this and see if it happens often or not.
Ah, good point.