the argument for .ml domain has always been absurd to begin with. So it's free but the price you pay is that it's being run by Mali. I'd just drop 8$/year tbh, that's not a hill you want to die for. Also you harm your project by being SEO punished for using spam-associated TLDs like this. One of the reasons original Lemmy took so long to adopt until Reddit's API drama. Pretty dumb ngl.

lemmygrad.ml and lemmy.ml are gone? So sad.

Anyway.

Well kinda feels like my house burned down.

Hopefully the push towards some kind of direct migration comes on the feels of this.

Hi, professional DNS engineer here! if anyone has any questions about the inner workings of DNS or top level domains, ask away! (THIS IS MY MOMENT)

Link to the actual post OP screenshotted: https://very.bignutty.xyz/notes/9hf13it1ced3b2za

Screenshots of text are not the way. The crappy “hey, a text thing I want to share, let me take an accessibility-poisoning screenshot and upload that graphic file like a psychopath instead of just copy/pasting either the link to the text or the text itself like a decent human being” routine needs to die with Reddit, we have to be better than that here.

Seriously it's like no one knows how to use the internet (erm, to learn about teh innernets).

When in doubt, Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Country_code_top-level_domain?wprov=sfla1

Man, hacking, DDOS and now this. The fediverse just can't catch a break...

A lot of people should be concerned about this for .me domains as well (Montenegro)