Whenever I come across a new lemmy instance, it most likely has some sort of obscure TLD (.world, .ml, .ee, .me, .social just to name a few). Why aren’t there more with more common TLDs?
lemm.ee is on the Estonian ccTLD because the person that runs it is in Estonia.
Cos its considered cool and people follow the herd.
For techbros a while ago an .io domain was a thing because its sounds like i/o and projects an image you are tech literate.
newer tlds are cheaper and you can get cooler names
Starting in 2012 ICANN started introducing a bunch of new ones partly so there’s more addresses and also so that the names can better express the purpose of the site.
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Am sysadmin but pretty much all spam I see is from smaller companies hijacked Office365-accounts or gmx.com/net/se/de/etc.
A ton of new tlds became available a few years ago. A lot of newer sites use them, not just Lemmy servers. Older sites that have already been established for a while will obviously be using the standard endings, so if you compare lemmy sites vs well-known sites that have been around for a while, then that’s the reason.
There’s a few reasons, as well as the ones listed:
- .ml is a Mali domain which was being given away, so a lot of people snatched one up. This is now coming back to bite them on the ass as Mali want them all back.
- Some are run by the same team, like the .world ones who have lemmy, mastodon and I think calckey. I don’t think the same goes for all of them (but it may do - the .world ones are just the most high profile examples), .social just makes sense for a Fediverse social media instance.
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Can a Lemmy instance be a subdomain?
Yes, sh.itjust.works is an example
