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i think they had free .ml at some point which has become a decent domain because of machine learning

by mm983 5y ago

riffic 5y ago
jeez. people should absolutely know better because the ccTLD is for Mali, a somewhat unstable central African country. who cares what the letters alternatively stand for? Any website built on this is already on a shaky foundation.
- setr 5y ago
  Is there any domain other than com/edu/gov that’s actually used for its official meaning, and isn’t hosted by a government body? I feel like 99% of .ly sites have nothing to do with libya
  - detaro 5y ago
    I'd guess most ccTLDs are primarily used for the country, only a few get commonly "misused".
    - subhro 5y ago
      /me looks at .io and wonders.
      - detaro 5y ago
        My point. There's 300+ ccTLDs, or 250+ if you only count ASCII ones. There's maybe about a dozen regularly "misused" ones. (.tk is actually the largest ccTLD, but the rest of the top 10 is normal)
  - ffffwe3rq352y3 5y ago
    Only one off the top of my head is ebay. The Canada site is: ebay.ca Really the only place I use regularly that has it...
    - Symbiote 5y ago
      Alexa also lists amazon.ca, google.ca, canada.ca, kijiji.ca, realtor.ca, (ebay.ca), walmart.ca, cbc.ca, bestbuy.ca, airbnb.ca, homedepot.ca, and several *.gc.ca sites. In my experience, outside the USA many ccTLDs are commonly used – including the "domain hack" ones, in their own country.
      - smnrchrds 5y ago
        It helps that .ca domains are not available for all. As an individual, you need to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to purchase one. For companies, they need to have presence in Canada.
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      - SamBam 5y ago
        Yeah, seriously. Spend any time in Europe. Most local websites are at their ccTLD.
  - SahAssar 5y ago
    If you live outside of the US, yes quite a lot. That's what cctld's are for, the weird part you are observing is that nobody in the us seems to want to use their cctld.
    - xeromal 5y ago
      Because .com is the defacto US cctld at this point.
      - User23 5y ago
        You can’t anonymously hold a domain in .us.
        rakshazi 5y ago
        You can't anonymously hold a domain in any *TLD. Yes, even in freenom's TLDs (you're not a domain holder with free domains)
        squarefoot 5y ago
        Only in the US or everywhere? I see there are anonymizing services to mask the domain details so that any whois query returns a pointer to their office rather than the effective domain owners. A service that does the opposite might be handy for example to expose spammers.
        rakshazi 5y ago
        Anywhere. Yes, there are "whois guard" services, but that's actually email relays (like aliases). You must provide your identity information (name, surname, other passport/id data, address, etc.) to buy a domain name. Any "privacy-oriented" registrar just hides that information from whois records, but you still share it to registrar, so in case of government requests or data leak your PII will be exposed. There is no anonymity in internet, only pseudoanonymity.
  - deleted 5y ago
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  - Zababa 5y ago
    Most French-only websites are .fr
  - nextaccountic 5y ago
    Most Brazilian sites use .br and I've not seen a non-Brazilian site use it
  - GFischer 5y ago
    Here in Uruguay most of the .uy sites are local businesses.
- throwawaycities 5y ago
  > who cares what the letters alternatively stand for? Lots of people, in fact the letters don’t even need to stand for anything they just become part of SV tech culture and spread from there. For example look at all the tech companies that utilize .io without any real reason. Or from an eastern perspective .cc (cocoa island) has become popular in China because 1. simplicity and 2. repetition is culturally meaningful.
  - capableweb 5y ago
    .io comes from I/O. .ly (Libya) fits as a better example.
    - deleted 5y ago
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    - throwawaycities 5y ago
      But I/O is SV culturally derived secondary meaning to .io (British Indian Ocean Territory), there is no reason to have ascribed it. At least with .ly people are incorporating the ly as part of the name like when people register a .in (India) for their cryptocoin project [name]co.in
    - riffic 5y ago
      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory The point I was trying to make above ("who cares...") is that you can use any domain you want! You don't need to use a specific ccTLD (.ml would be the example I was referencing) in order to insinuate your machine learning applications.
3nt3 5y ago
clearly the success of .ml is only because of marxism-leninism's strive to acquire domains
- scrps 5y ago
  Mumbles something about collectivists and squatting

i think they had free .ml at some point which has become a decent domain because of machine learning

by mm983 5y ago

i think they had free .ml at some point which has become a decent domain because of machine learning

jeez. people should absolutely know better because the ccTLD is for Mali, a somewhat unstable central African country. who cares what the letters alternatively stand for? Any website built on this is already on a shaky foundation.

setr 5y ago
Is there any domain other than com/edu/gov that’s actually used for its official meaning, and isn’t hosted by a government body? I feel like 99% of .ly sites have nothing to do with libya
- detaro 5y ago
  I'd guess most ccTLDs are primarily used for the country, only a few get commonly "misused".
  - subhro 5y ago
    /me looks at .io and wonders.
    - detaro 5y ago
      My point. There's 300+ ccTLDs, or 250+ if you only count ASCII ones. There's maybe about a dozen regularly "misused" ones. (.tk is actually the largest ccTLD, but the rest of the top 10 is normal)
- ffffwe3rq352y3 5y ago
  Only one off the top of my head is ebay. The Canada site is: ebay.ca Really the only place I use regularly that has it...
  - Symbiote 5y ago
    Alexa also lists amazon.ca, google.ca, canada.ca, kijiji.ca, realtor.ca, (ebay.ca), walmart.ca, cbc.ca, bestbuy.ca, airbnb.ca, homedepot.ca, and several *.gc.ca sites. In my experience, outside the USA many ccTLDs are commonly used – including the "domain hack" ones, in their own country.
    - smnrchrds 5y ago
      It helps that .ca domains are not available for all. As an individual, you need to be a Canadian citizen or permanent resident to purchase one. For companies, they need to have presence in Canada.
    - deleted 5y ago
      [deleted]
    - SamBam 5y ago
      Yeah, seriously. Spend any time in Europe. Most local websites are at their ccTLD.
- SahAssar 5y ago
  If you live outside of the US, yes quite a lot. That's what cctld's are for, the weird part you are observing is that nobody in the us seems to want to use their cctld.
  - xeromal 5y ago
    Because .com is the defacto US cctld at this point.
    - User23 5y ago
      You can’t anonymously hold a domain in .us.
      - rakshazi 5y ago
        You can't anonymously hold a domain in any *TLD. Yes, even in freenom's TLDs (you're not a domain holder with free domains)
        squarefoot 5y ago
        Only in the US or everywhere? I see there are anonymizing services to mask the domain details so that any whois query returns a pointer to their office rather than the effective domain owners. A service that does the opposite might be handy for example to expose spammers.
        rakshazi 5y ago
        Anywhere. Yes, there are "whois guard" services, but that's actually email relays (like aliases). You must provide your identity information (name, surname, other passport/id data, address, etc.) to buy a domain name. Any "privacy-oriented" registrar just hides that information from whois records, but you still share it to registrar, so in case of government requests or data leak your PII will be exposed. There is no anonymity in internet, only pseudoanonymity.
- deleted 5y ago
  [deleted]
- Zababa 5y ago
  Most French-only websites are .fr
- nextaccountic 5y ago
  Most Brazilian sites use .br and I've not seen a non-Brazilian site use it
- GFischer 5y ago
  Here in Uruguay most of the .uy sites are local businesses.
throwawaycities 5y ago
> who cares what the letters alternatively stand for? Lots of people, in fact the letters don’t even need to stand for anything they just become part of SV tech culture and spread from there. For example look at all the tech companies that utilize .io without any real reason. Or from an eastern perspective .cc (cocoa island) has become popular in China because 1. simplicity and 2. repetition is culturally meaningful.
- capableweb 5y ago
  .io comes from I/O. .ly (Libya) fits as a better example.
  - deleted 5y ago
    [deleted]
  - throwawaycities 5y ago
    But I/O is SV culturally derived secondary meaning to .io (British Indian Ocean Territory), there is no reason to have ascribed it. At least with .ly people are incorporating the ly as part of the name like when people register a .in (India) for their cryptocoin project [name]co.in
  - riffic 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io .io is assigned to the British Indian Ocean Territory The point I was trying to make above ("who cares...") is that you can use any domain you want! You don't need to use a specific ccTLD (.ml would be the example I was referencing) in order to insinuate your machine learning applications.

3nt3 5y ago

clearly the success of .ml is only because of marxism-leninism's strive to acquire domains

scrps 5y ago
Mumbles something about collectivists and squatting