Now that the UK has signed a deal to hand over the Chagos islands, the .io TLD will likely get repurposed.
Really would like a method to migrate my .io TLD hosted Mastodon server to another TLD.
AFAIK it's not just a matter of lift/shift/config - Mastodon breaks when the server FQDN is changed.
Anyone know better?
Sooo!
What are #sysadmins contingency plans for when Nazi USA starts to fuck with #tld and other Internet infrastructure?
Like implementing fascist (anti-#DEI) slash and burn, packet inspection drops and other shitfuckery?
And if you think that's unlikely the US Nazis are already leaning on US suppliers to make sure they don't have DEI policies.
What's your plan for the Great Firewall of the USA?
Or US exercising Internet #killswitch Obama put in?
Switching copies of TLD Database to be root?
@per_sonne @cstross @StompyRobot @petealexharris @tbortels @Remittancegirl
Economics dorkery truly is a peak human experience!
#penguins #ai #tld #ReciprocalTariffs #balanceoftrade #morepenguins #cusma #reciprocity #BigHands
I noticed that https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt was updated yesterday,
But, as far as I can tell, nothing has changed other than the updated date.
Do #IANA just republish it most days?
Remember `.su`, the ccTLD for the Soviet Union? Created in 1990, just 15 months before the USSR was dissolved and in ICANN limbo since, broadly used primarily for various sorts of cybercrime.
Now ICANN will finally move to retire the #TLD from the #DNS, targeting removal by 2030:
https://domainnamewire.com/2025/03/11/icann-moves-to-retire-soviet-era-su-country-domain-name/
Interestingly, ICANN moving forward with this could imply that they _will_ follow through on the removal of the `.io` #ccTLD should the return of the territory to Mauritius complete...
In anticipation of the completion of ICANN policy activity for the New gTLD Program: Next Round, the Interisle team looked again at our 2024 Cybercrime Supply Chain study. Using the same data, we offer additional measurements, metrics and observations here to further inform ICANN and other policy makers as they consider policy for Round 2.
https://interisle.substack.com/p/icann-consider-cybercrime-data-before
@ErikJonker @SIDNlabs @sidnfonds
Zouden ze bij #SIDN het spreekwoord: "beter ten halve gekeerd, dan ten ten hele gedwaald" kennen?
Of misschien moeten we ze alvast in het Engels aanspreken? "A fault confessed is half redressed"
I'm guessing .irish is gearing up for St. Paddy's day? +1K new names since yesterday. 
New spikes in #TLD registrations for .qpon (jumping from 391 about a month ago to 1,258 today) and .realty (jumping from 1,451 yesterday to 2,579 today). Both have been available to the public for some time. Looks like maybe some registars dropped prices for at least qpon (seeing <$3 advertized). ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Advice needed:
I want to buy a domain name to play with self-hosting but want one with a fairly consistent annual payment. So many seem to be cheap in year one and then 5-10x that in subsequent years.
Any recommendations for a reliable and non-exploitative registrar?
Thanks in advance
A great deal of stuff depends on the imperiled .io top-level domain in order to exist. Stuff such as itch.io
@MichaelRoss It appears that a Google seach (on Safari, not the app) using a single seach term and “.gov” returns at least one full screen of federal, state, and local government sites, with no “Sponsored” links. I tried it with “wildlife” and “recycle.” Using “ca.gov” turned up many screens on which all the hits were California state and local government sites. A few found embedded links, rather than the actual page URLs, which was the only way it turned up any local governments who have given up their free .gov URL for cityorcounty.org addresses. (I have no idea why any of them did that.) If the federal government changed from .gov to .us.gov, it would be easy to find their pages without a bunch of state and local pages mixed in. #SEO #SearchEngineOptimization #TLD #Top-LevelDomain #TopLevelDomains #KISS
Dear fellow Canadian Mastodon-ers...
My preferred Dot CA domain name is currently being cyber-squatted.
Because the content is Canada specific, as will be a number of its would-be sub-domains,
I want the Dot CA.
Yet since I can't have it as I don't want to reward the cyber-squatter
Please help me by suggesting alternate Top Level Domains that to most Canadians would still be kind of a Canadian TLD.
Thank you! Eh!
| #DotCA #TLD #TopLevelDomains #TopLevelDomain #DomainName #Canadian #Canada
In the past few days, I set up an additional #NginxProxyManager instance to serve as a reverse proxy for my new internal #TLD. 
It also provides #LetsEncrypt certificates to ensure a secure connection. 
My #AdGuardHome #DNS server ensures everything works correctly. 
Lock the doors! A new update for The Long Dark dropped yesterday!
Part 6 (final) of Tales Of The Far Territory (DLC).
Some incredible updates in this!
