With several Lemmy instances using the .ml TLD I’ve seen people mention others being risky as well. Which should be avoided?
Basically any 2-letter TLD should be avoided unless you live in that country.
If you want to be clever, use subdomains and pick one of the new TLDs. For instance, ban.anal.ink, is like $5.
Don’t be too sad, it wouldn’t work well with reverse-DNS notation anyway. ;)
No, everything with the specified format is $0.99.
A big one is the .nu domain, which is extremely popular in Sweden (since “nu” means “now” in Swedish).
It’s currently controlled by the same large non-profit that controls .se (Internet Foundation in Sweden, IIS), but Niue has been wanting control of it for decades. It’s a complicated issue since .nu addresses have become incredibly important to Swedish Internet infrastructure.
Litigation was launched in 2020 but I’m not aware of any news since then.
Niue is a small Polynesian island country north-east of New Zeeland. It’s who the domain was originally assigned to.
familyphotos.zip
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 .bingo or .rest or anything with no perceivable use.
Like zip or mov. Don’t buy those. Any smart person and corporation already has those blanket banned.
