Am I Crazy or is the Mali Government Reclaiming the ml Domain Now is too Convenient of a Time?
lemmy.fmhy.ml is down because of this, and lemmy.ml (which is one of the largest lemmy instance) might be next.
Is this a conspiracy?
A conspiracy by whom? To do what?
Top level domains are a significant source of revenue. As the “.ml” gets used more often due to “machine learning” of course the government will try and explore this further.
A conspiracy to do what? Take down Lemmy? I swear people here overstate our importance. This is a comparatively tiny website.
Wasn’t the contract ending causing the domain control to transfer to Mali known for quite a while?
Also, I’m now picturing a general in a war room in Mali saying “This Lemmy site is becoming too powerful. Shut it down. They should’ve known better than to mess with Mali! Muahahahah!”
They aren’t “reclaiming” the top level domain, they’ve always owned it. They are simply not renewing the contract which was ending with Freenom.
ml was managed by freenom for a long time. They made it available alongside tk domains.
Freenom stopped operations for sometime and both Mali and Tokelau are in the process of taking over their registrars from freenom.
It’s more of an example of a coincidence than a conspiracy.
I don’t think it’s about lemmy.
This is so incredibly stupid… People who leak national secrets because they can’t be trusted to check their URL’s and/or email addresses shouldn’t be allowed to use those same communication methods.