With several Lemmy instances using the .ml TLD I’ve seen people mention others being risky as well. Which should be avoided?
familyphotos.zip
Monthlyreportsv2.zip
mysupersafe.app
Some TLDs that aren’t country codes but also aren’t very useful or popular will sometimes be blanket blocked by institutions, on the theory that there’s so many more garbage malware C&Cs or whatever than actual useful sites that it makes sense to ban the whole thing. So you might not want to go with
.bingoor.restor anything with no perceivable use.Like zip or mov. Don’t buy those. Any smart person and corporation already has those blanket banned.
Can I interest you in my new Lemmy instance, blanket-banned.zip?
Sure! What’s the name? Your comment cut off after “instance”.
Aww shit try this one:
I suppose free ones, new generic TLDs that aren’t owned by some trustworthy company or organization that will probably continue to exist for the forseeable future, and country code TLDs from countries without stable governments or a reputable institution managing the TLD.
.cx
Found out the hard way when my gerbiling instance, lemmy.cx, was rejected.
gerbiling?
Gostse was hosted on this domain.
.biz always seemed a bit sketchy. Would probably also avoid .nk
The TLD for the DPRK is .kp, not .nk
If you’re hosting an instance on a risky TLD and you wanna migrate, probably best to close signups now and disallow any new communities from being created on there
On an unrelated note, who is sitting on lemmy.games? We need a gaming dedicated instance. I got lemmygames.net but lemmy.games would make me happy.
Personally I would prefer if we didn’t use “Lemmy” for everything. I really like programming.dev as a software development based instances. Also makes it less confusing if an instance decides to change to kbin or a future compatible server.
