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That's interesting. Why won't the Taliban just license it, like other places do? I don't need to go to Tuvalu to buy a .tv domain. I'm guessing embargoes may pl
by sonicggg 4y ago
That's interesting. Why won't the Taliban just license it, like other places do? I don't need to go to Tuvalu to buy a .tv domain. I'm guessing embargoes may play a minor role, but China still trades with them.
- walrus01 4y agoEven before the government collapse the ministry of comms showed little interest in licensing it to a third party operator for widespread use. They get more revenue from a small customer prepaid credit loading tax on the four LTE/gsm/3gpp band mobile phone operators.
- incone123 4y agoMaybe they don't want people using it as an abbreviation for As Fuck. high.af
- bipson 4y agoI don't think that is a real concern for the Taliban. I would rather ask: why would they? Are we expecting Taliban to consider giving out registrations? To foreigners?! What would be their motivation to streamline this in any way at all? Do we assume that they even care?
- thematrixturtle 4y agoThe motivation would be money. Lots of people would pay for awesome.af, dope.af etc if it was easy enough to do so.
- throwaway894345 4y agoDidn't the Taliban finance their holy war by selling opium? Seems like they probably aren't the scrupulous type.
- droopyEyelids 4y agoThe taliban has generally been against opium and banned the poppy farming again as soon as they took over. Poppy farming financed the other powers, against the taliban.
- kazinator 4y agoI didn't realize their culture was so Americanized!
- nnt38 4y agoThat domain is currently being used